Word: moscowitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killer, Martin ("Buggsy") Goldstein, left a $12,000 life-insurance policy to his widow. Prudential Insurance Co. contended it would be "against public policy" to pay it, since a man who knows that his kin are cared for may be more likely to commit a crime. Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, in U.S. District Court last week, finding no precedent for the case, thought otherwise. Said he, "It may be well to ask what sort of determent the voiding of a man's insurance may be when the death penalty does not halt his criminal...
...Inside she had another piano, which she played in the evenings. On the piano at the neighbor hood Republican club, one of her favorite resorts, she sometimes played and sang opera arias. She could never pass a piano by. At Moscowitz's stationery store one day, she had a toy piano taken from the window, played until they made her stop.Occasionally, she played for the Democrats at their club. But she preferred the Republicans...