Word: moe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That Brown Freshman basketball team is hot, much hotter than Tech." This was all Yardling coach Moe Berg had to say yesterday concerning his quintet's chances against the Bruin cubs tonight at 7 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building...
Until this spring, all they had on Moe was a jaundiced eye and a 1942 federal rap for perjury. He was fined $2,000 for denying the purchase of some hot ice from a New York source. Then he tried to do business with Mrs. Sayde Genis...
Sayde was a middle-aged lady whose husband made his bundle in real estate. She got interested in what she thought was a 21-carat diamond ring. Moe and his brother Gail, who worked for him, wanted $40,000 for the rock. Mrs. Genis demurred. Anyway, the Reingolds only had the ring on consignment. So when Mrs. Genis bought it through another jeweler for a mere $19,000 (it was a mere 18 carats, too, she discovered), Moe was miffed and said so. "Mr. Moe Reingold," the lady later recalled explicitly, "called me a son of a bitch and said...
When Sayde could finally talk, she told the cops about her dealings with Moe and his brother. They traced a thug named Abe Greenburg to New York, where he confessed that Moe and Gail had put him up to the job. They also found the man with the gun, a short, swart ex-convict, Joe Miller. The boys were pretty mad. Between them they'd made only...
Greenburg turned state's evidence. Moe, Gail and Miller were charged with armed robbery. Gail pleaded guilty, then attempted suicide. Last week, Moe the gonif and Miller, his hired punk, were convicted. Yiddish for thief...