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Word: moe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other House matches, Conrad Brevick, Winthrop 128-pounder, pinned teammate Armand Fabella in the second period. In the 136-pound class, varsity wrestling manager Moe Richardson (Winthrop) decisioned Dave Shapiro, who wrestled at 145 in the Columbia match. The score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Clean Up in Mat Tourney | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

...detective, and he wasn't physically tough. But he had a genius for ferreting out the sources of gangsters' income and jailing crooks for tax evasion. Elmer Irey and his T-men put the finger on such arrogant law-flout-ers as Al Capone, "Nucky" Johnson, Moe Annenberg and Tom Pendergast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Elmer Did | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Hauptmann by tracing registered ransom bills, the technique was always much the same: to determine the size of the gangster's loot, then match it against his income-tax returns. By 1940, Irey had uncovered $476,573,129 in tax deficiencies (the Philadelphia Inquirer's late Publisher Moe Annenberg made the largest single contribution to the Treasury: $8,000,000). At one time nearly two-thirds of all federal prisoners were men jailed as a result of Irey's patient, adding-machine methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Elmer Did | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Eenie meenie minie moe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Dissenter | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Died. James Herbert Wilkerson 78 famed racket-busting federal judge, who sentenced Al Capone to prison in 1931; in Chicago. Judge Wilkerson also tried Utilities Tycoon Samuel Insull and Racing Form Publisher Moe Annenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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