Word: moe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn home of Novelist Sholem (The Nazarene) Asch, jazz was forbidden because it was bordello music; cowboy ballads were allowed. One of his three sons, Moe (for Moses) Asch, 40, has become the nation's No. 1 recorder of out-of-the-way jazz, cowboy music and such exotic items as Paris street noises during the liberation, and little-heard Russian operas...
Rumors ran through the picket lines that the oldtime strong-arm men of the Chicago circulation wars, the late Moe Annenberg's boys, were moving in. Sporadic violence flared around the Daily News plant. In midtown it suddenly became easier to buy papers, especially the News and the Times; boys and old men were posted at street corners, peddling papers at a 100 to 150% markup...
...week Bell Bottom Trousers, revived as a song hit of World War II, placed first in U.S. sheet-music sales and fourth in radio performances. But the lyrics had been thoroughly scrubbed up. Veteran fathers, momentarily alarmed by the melody the bobby-soxers were singing, were quickly reassured. Songwriter Moe Jaffe's modernized maid, as coolly respectable as a Junior League Nurses' Aide, has the situation well in hand; her sailor is as wholesome as an Eagle Scout...
TIME and "Old Moe...
...thought that some of your readers may be interested in how one Army lieutenant values his copy of TIME. Here is a letter that I just received from Lieutenant Morris Katz, who signs himself "Old Moe...