Moses Annenberg - Biography

Moses "Moe" Louis Annenberg (February 11, 1877 – July 20, 1942) was an American newspaper publisher, who purchased The Philadelphia Inquirer, the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States. in 1936. The Inquirer has the sixteenth largest average weekday U.S. newspaper circulation, and has won eighteen Pulitzer Prizes.

Annenberg began his career as a Chicago newspaper salesman for the Hearst Corporation. He eventually built a fortune and the successful publishing company that became Triangle Publications, Inc. During the Roosevelt administration, he was indicted for tax evasion and, after pleading guilty, was sentenced to three years. In 1942, shortly after being released, Annenberg died at age 65.

Several sources have documented his links to organized crime, such as his involvement in Chicago's "Circulation Wars" and his later ownership of the National Racing Wire, though it is widely under reported.

He and his wife, Sadie, were the parents of the publisher and philanthropist, Walter Annenberg, who inherited his father's business and went on to found Triangle Publications and later the Annenberg Foundation. Since its founding the Annenberg Foundation has awarded over 5,200 grants, which total in excess of $2.8 billion. The Annenberg Foundation has major programs in education, youth development, arts, culture, humanities, civic, community, health and human services, animal services as well as the environment.

See also

• Ranch A, Annenberg's ranch in eastern Wyoming, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Further reading

• Moses Annenberg's connection to Chicago's organized crime: Part 2 of 3
• Moses Annenberg's connection to Chicago's organized crime: Part 3 of 3
• Cooney, John E. The Annenbergs. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.
• Fried, Albert. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. ISBN 0-231-09683-6
• Johnson, Curt and R. Craig Sautter. The Wicked City: Chicago from Kenna to Capone. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998. ISBN 0-306-80821-8
• Reppetto, Thomas A. American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2004. ISBN 0-8050-7798-7
• Schatzberg, Rufus, Robert J.Kelly and Ko-lin Chin, ed. Handbook of Organized Crime in the United States. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN 0-313-28366-4
• Winter-Berger, Robert N. The Washington Pay-Off: An Insider's View of Corruption in Government. New York: Dell Publishing, 1972.

External links

• Paper Trail Annenbergs
• The origins of the Mob and the Atlantic City Conference