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...Year's Eve, 1932, the Delmars drove from Hollywood to Agua Caliente, lost so much gambling at the Casino that they had to borrow money for gas to drive home. When they came to file their joint income tax return for 1933, Eugene remembered to deduct the $1,200 he had lost at chemin de fer, Vina the $300 she lost at roulette. Under the Revenue Act of 1934 this posed the problem as to whether the Delmars had undertaken their gambling for recreation or profit. Called before the Board of Tax Appeals, chunky Eugene insisted he had gambled...
...public gambling in Mexico have reduced the border town of Tijuana (literally "Aunty Jane") from an egregious haunt for U. S. tourists to a bedraggled ghost city of boarded-up saloons and flapping signs. Some excitement occurred two months ago when 400 unemployed barricaded themselves in the big Agua Caliente (literally "Hot Water") hotel and defied the garrison of 28 soldiers to oust them. Since then Aunty Jane has been tomb-quiet...
...cylinder, 1,200 h.p. Twin-Wasp Sever sky that won him the Bendix Trophy for 1937, California's Frank W. Fuller last week whizzed out of Vancouver, crossed 20 miles of Canada, 1,184 miles of U. S. and penetrated 5 miles into Mexico, landing at Agua Caliente 4 hours, 54 minutes after his takeoff. Flyer Fuller cut 34 minutes off the best previous time for linking the three North American nations, claimed to have used but 670 h.p. in his flight...
...share of the income which she had received as her daughter's guardian during her minority. In her formal complaint Daughter Hewitt charged that her mother had squandered that money in gambling and high living at Deauville, Monte Carlo, Villa d'Este, Agua Caliente. She further charged that her mother had deprived her of an education, dressed her poorly, kept her confined, continually abused her. "She never had any affection for me, none whatsoever," moaned the girl. ''I can't account for it. I tried in every way to gain her love, but she never...
President Cárdenas had already stopped gambling in the rest of Mexico last December; even in the Mexican politicians' fabulous Foreign Club at Mexico City. Last week he clamped down on Agua Caliente. Drawing most of their huge income from the gambling concessions, Hot Water's proprietors knew at once that a beautiful dream was over, shut up shop. Guests, croupiers, gamblers, horse trainers, horses, whippets, barbers, masseuses, all started trailing back to California...