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...picked to be New York's Commissioner of Licenses when he turned Tammany out of City Hall three years ago. Since the power to license is the power to reform, Commissioner Moss, who is as notable for his integrity as for his dapper dress, lost no time suppressing shortweight ice dealers, market racketeers, dirty magazine publishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Moss v. Lice | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

That he "sold shortweight coal in Denver, blackmailing and browbeating customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Contempt in Denver | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

Heywood Broun: ". . . . emotionally shortweight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

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