Word: moe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry Allen Moe, secretary-general of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . . . . . . . Litt.D...
...family. His father Max, circulation boss first of Hearst's Chicago papers and later of Mc-Cormick's Chicago Tribune, directed the roughhouse Hearst-McCormick circulation wars of the early 1900s, later went to New York to build the circulation of the new tabloid News. His Uncle Moe was the boss of U.S. horse-racing news until he was sent to prison in the largest income-tax-evasion case of his time ($9,500,000).* When Max Annenberg died in 1941, Ivan stepped into his job at the New York News...
...Moe Annenberg's son Walter took over the Philadelphia Inquirer, became a Philadelphia civic leader and successful newspaper and magazine (TV Guide, Seventeen) publisher in his own right...
Life in the pages of a Damon Runyon story is a happy affair, but Harry the Horse. Dave the Dude, Light-Finger Moe and many other guys and dolls seem to have been less engaging in fact than in fiction. When Runyon brought one of the real-life models of his characters home, his wife broke up the party by shouting: "Get that bum out of here...
Unfortunately, sturdier data must supplant this episode from Moe's fanciful History of Harvard. Veritas was one of several religious mottoes suggested in the early years of the College. At that time a spiritual team, Veritas was translated as "divine truth," the meaning Dante had given...