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  Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Izzy (Isadore) Einstein (1880–1938) and Moe Smith (died 1961) were American policemen during the first years of the alcohol prohibition era (1920–1925).
Izzy and Moe operated between 1920 and 1925 in New York.
Izzy Einstein was married to Esther Einstein and they had four sons, Joseph, Charles, Edward and Albert.
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 Izzy and Moe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Izzy and Moe is a 1985 made for TV prohibition-era crime/comedy film, starring Jackie Gleason and Art Carney.
In steps Izzy Einstein (Jackie Gleason), a man who is desperate to come home with a steady paycheck to support his wife, mother-in-law and four daughters.
Izzy is also interested in disproving his mother-in-law's assertion that he's just a 'bum', with the constant refrain that if he ever amounts to anything she'll light his cigar in Macy's Window.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Izzy_and_Moe   (891 words)

  
 Izzy and Moe
Izzy once tossed his agent's badge on the bar of a Bowery saloon and — this fat, unkempt individual — asked for a pint of whisky for "a deserving prohibition agent." The bartender sold it to him, thinking him a great wit.
Izzy and Moe, rotund and cheerful men, made life so miserable for the prohibition-law violaters, that waiters, bartenders and speakeasy proprietors feared to sell liquor to anyone if a "rumor" circulated that "they" were in the area.
"Izzy and Moe belong on the vaudeville stage." [Cited by by Joan Rapczynski Florence Zywocinski in Prohibition As A Reform.
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Izzy was a Postal clerk and Moe was a cigar store owner when the 18th amendment took effect.
A few months later he was teamed with Moe Smith and the rest became history.
Izzy being a funny man, once even sang a song in a German Beer Garden before he shut it down.
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They were Isidor Einstein and Moe Smith, popularly known as Izzy and Moe.
Izzy and Moe were known to use clever disguises to enter speakeasies and other establishments where alcohol was illegally sold.
Izzy and Moe were fired from the Bureau in November of 1925.
www.personal.psu.edu /users/m/j/mjd927/projects/alcohol/Art2final.txt   (7792 words)

  
 Prohibition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There were, however, exceptions to this public scorn, such as the activities of Eliot Ness and his elite team of Treasury Agents nicknamed The Untouchables, and the New York City prohibition agent team of Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith, known together as simply Izzy and Moe.
For these exceptions, Ness' honesty and flair for public relations and Izzy and Moe's more eccentric, but highly effective, methods with disguises attracted considerable media attention.
The Volstead Act was amended to allow "3.2 beer" (3.2 percent alcohol by volume) by passage of the Blaine Act on February 17, 1933.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prohibition   (2766 words)

  
 izzy and moe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Izzy and Moe were two rough, tough prohibition cops.
Once, Izzy pretended to be freezing to death in order to trick a barman into giving him a drink.
Their escapades were so wacky that they caused the NYPD some embarrassment.
www.jazzbabies.com /nonflash/izzy.html   (57 words)

  
 Roaring 20s History Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Prohibition agent Eliot Ness was more serious than Izzy and Moe, but he was just as dedicated and effective.
Supporters of Prohibition like Izzy, Moe, and Eliot Ness were sincere in their belief that the law—if enforced effectively—would improve society.
The comical appearance of Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith belied their commitment to enforcing Prohibition.
www.bookrags.com /history-roaring-20s/05.html   (602 words)

  
 America Sobers Up
New York City's Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith proved masters of disguise, which allowed them to infiltrate speakeasy after speakeasy to obtain evidence and make arrests.
Izzy and Moe's efforts were so widely reported that they were forced to keep changing their ploys, and by 192S they were compelled to retire."
Magazines such as Literary Digest, The New Yorker, and H. Mencken's American Mercury frequently referred to drinking by the Eastern upper classes and, by assuming that what could be observed of one class in one region was equally true for all social strata throughout the country, exaggerated the overall level of prohibition violation.
www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/history/rnp/RNP2.html   (6376 words)

  
 Prohibition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
There were exceptions to this public scorn such as the activities of Eliot Ness and his elite team of Treasury Agents nicknamed The Untouchables and the New York City prohibition agent team of Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith, known collectively as simply Izzy and Moe.
For these exceptions, Ness' honesty and flair for public relations and Izzy and Moe's more eccentric methods attracted considerable media attention.
It also presented lucrative opportunities for organized crime to take over the importation ("bootlegging"), manufacture and distribution of alcoholic beverages.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/p/pr/prohibition.html   (620 words)

  
 Picture of the Day: June 27   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith, in one of their many disguises, served as Prohibition agents in New York City for five years, often resorting to zany measures to put the pinch on speak-easy owners.
From 1920 to 1932, the manufacture and sale of liquor was illegal in the United States, but the clandestine traffic of liquor was plentiful.
The job of enforcing the law fell on 1,550 "Feds." Izzy and Moe, with their imagination and good humor, managed to take the credit for 20 percent of all Prohibition cases that came to trial in New York City.
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 Bootleg Hooch, Helen Keller Highlight July 1922
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The federal "dry men" seem to have been modeling themselves after Brooklyn’s own Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith, whose partnership resulted in the confiscation of 5 million bottles of alcohol and who were famous for disguising themselves as cowboys, football players, trombone players or street cleaners to trap unwary bartenders.
Izzy and Moe’s creative antics made them popular heroes, but in general the enforcement of the prohibition laws was highly unpopular.
www.qgazette.com /News/2003/0730/Feature_Stories/003.html   (1183 words)

  
 Emessay Notes May 2002 plain text   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Moe W. Smith was raised a Master Mason in Emanuel Lodge #654 on November 8, 1922.
He was, in turn, a traveling salesman, a street cleaner, a banker, a bartender, a grave digger, a streetcar conductor, a Texas cattleman and, in Hollywood, a movie extra.
Izzy once tossed his agent's badge on the bar of a Bowery saloon and - this fat, unkempt individual - asked for a pint of whisky for "a deserving prohibition agent." The bartender sold it to him, thinking him a great wit.
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 albert einstein and psychics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 Long Island History: Rumrunners Run Around LI
In 1923 famous Prohibition agents Izzy and Moe raided the Nassau Hotel in Long Beach and arrested three men for bootlegging.
Postal clerk Isidor Einstein and cigar store owner Moe Smith were hired by the federal government even though they looked nothing like Elliot Ness, but they had great imagination and a gift for impersonation.
The two boys from Brooklyn collected evidence by pouring booze into a funnel in Izzy's vest pocket that was connected via a rubber tube to a flat bottle hidden in the lining.
www.newsday.com /community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs715b,0,7354308.story   (1075 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- People -- Jun. 24, 1985   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Explains Gleason: "The only way Art and I could do something, to play characters who were not the Honeymooners, was if we did real people." This month they got their chance.
They are filming a TV movie about two famed undercover Prohibition agents, Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith.
The two ham it up in the disguises used by the flamboyant peace officers, though no one pretends the parts will supplant their earlier incarnations.
www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,959484,00.html   (182 words)

  
 Izzy & Moe (DVD)
Isadore Einstein and Morris Smith are two unorthodox federal agents who are highly publicized and very creative Roaring Twenties crime stoppers.
Gleason's Einstein believes, "serious jobs can be done with a little style and humor".
Guns, Feds and gangsters provide fast-paced excitement in "Izzy and Moe" as Gleason and Carney display the magic that has made them legendary laughmakers.
www.dvdworldonline.com /DVD/Section2/Izzy&Moe.asp?REFERER=YO7861   (165 words)

  
 Izzy - Welcome to Izzy's - Where You're Only a Stranger Once   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 NYC Magic Garden February 2005 Invite
The Prohibition Bureau sent out thousands of operatives to raid - the most famous were NYC guys Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith, Izzy and Moe, two retired vaudeville performers who disguised themselves and became the most effective agents of the force.
They got too much attention from their theatrical antics and were removed from the force.
Their story was made into a movie with Jackie Gleason and Art Carney called, surprisingly, "Izzy and Moe."
www.nycmagicgarden.com /Invite_February_2005.htm   (1632 words)

  
 Those Fads... Part 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
So proactive that he actually hired spies to check on the after-work habits of his workers.
While the exploits of bold Prohibition agents such as Elliot Ness in Chicago and Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith in New York (the latter two were masters of disguise) were admired by the public, booze-controlling gangsters such Al Capone were, oddly, even more fondly thought of.
A big contributor to Chicago neighborhood charities, Capone elicited cheers from citizens whenever he drove by in his armored auto.
www.heilmile.de /2/englisch/sek1/klasse10roaringtwenties/thosefads...part4.html   (953 words)

  
 Prohibition - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In some cases, the money likely ended up in corrupt Prohibition agencies.
There were exceptions to this public scorn, such as the activities of Eliot Ness and his elite team of Treasury Agents nicknamed The Untouchables, and the New York City prohibition agent team of Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith, known together as simply Izzy and Moe.
Prohibition also presented lucrative opportunities for organized crime to take over the importation ("bootlegging"), manufacture, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Prohibition   (1688 words)

  
 Izzy & Moe (1985) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Unfortunately, the reason a friend invited me over to watch it was because he knows I'm a history buff with a special interest in the Prohibition era -- and let's face it, even by Hollywood standards the historical facts were trashed.
The real Izzy and Moe were very interesting people, if you want to see what they were up to leave this movie on the shelf and head to the library.
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Izzy & Moe (1985) (TV)
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 AmericanHeritage.com / MEMORANDA OF A DECADE
Izzy and Moe disguised themselves as automobile cleaners, raided a garage on West Broadway, and seized nine barrels of beer and 244 cases of whisky.
For purposes of other raids, and in each case with comparable success, they took to the streets disguised as vegetable venders, as fishermen, as horse dealers, as street-car conductors, as churchgoers in the Palm Sunday Parade along Fifth Avenue, and as salesmen of a wholesale grocery concern, offering turkeys to the Thanksgiving trade.
Damon and Pythias in the armor of enforcement, through four years of raids and round-ups the enterprising figures of Izzy and Moe appeared in silhouette against the cynicism of the city as symbols of the law.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1965/5/1965_5_33.shtml   (5644 words)

  
 32¢ Prohibition Enforced   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
And since agents were paid miserable wages, few were dedicated to their work.
Two notable exceptions were agents Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith -- famous for donning elaborate disguises to catch offenders.
Calls for repeal of Prohibition began as early as 1923.
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 ART CARNEY JACKIE GLEASON IZZY & MOE MOVIE CAST Autograph
ART CARNEY JACKIE GLEASON IZZY & MOE MOVIE CAST Autograph
JACKIE GLEASON (1916-1987) as Izzy Einstein and ART CARNEY (1918-2003) as Moe Smith re-teamed for the final time in this 1985 made-for-TV comedy movie about a pair of ex-vaudevillians who begin working as Prohibition agents.
Horizontal folds, 1 touches lower loop of "G" in Gleason.
www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=80882   (187 words)

  
 j. - Free-wheeling U.S. spirit stoked gangsters, prof says
They felt they had to assert power, violence and force to get what they wanted.
Baumgarten cited Jenna Weissman Joselit's "Our Gang, Jewish Crime and the New York Jewish Community, 1900-1940," which recounts the exploits of Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith.
The two used disguises to find out why sacramental Jewish wine was in such demand in New York City during prohibition.
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 izzy - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word izzy:
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 prohiition information,prohibition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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For these exceptions, Ness' honesty and flair for public relations and Izzy and Moe's more eccentric, but highlyeffective, methods with disguises attracted considerable media attention.
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