Annenbergs in Court newspaper clipping, 1939


Permanent ID:
1695
Date:
November 15 1939
Image Description:
Scan depicts news clipping related to the trial of Moses Annenberg.  Annenberg was born in East Prussia on February 11, 1877.  He immigrated to Chicago in 1900 where he started out as a newspaper salesman.  He later built a successful publishing company, which purchased the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1936.  Annenberg plead guilty to income tax evasion and was sentenced to prison.  Annenberg served two years in prison before his death on July 20, 1942.   
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Associated Press Photo         From Chicago
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ANNENBERGS IN COURT
M. L. Annenberg (left) and his son, Walter (right) are shown as they appeared in federal court xxxx at Chicago Nov. 15 for arraignment on a series of indictment returned against them and a group of others last summer.  The cases, however, were continued to Nov. 27.  At the same time attorneys announced that the nationwide race news service controlled by the elder Annenberg would suspend service effective Nov. 15.
Associated Press Photo
MID AP WC AR CS, PA, PXNON IN [?] 11-15-39 STF HH 
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Address:
Chicago
Format:
Printed Matter
Collection:
Philadelphia Record photograph morgue
Library of Congress Subjects:
Annenberg, Moses Louis, 1878-1942 [info:lc/authorities/names/n81140078]
Annenberg, Walter H., 1908-2002 [info:lc/authorities/names/n50021099]