Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poker player and duck hunter, a successful and honest businessman, a philanthropist who gave away several hundred wooden legs*-he was sincerely mourned. The triumph of his career as boss came in 1923 when he put honest William Emmett Dever into Chicago's mayorship. In 1926, Brennan "bet his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of Prohibition"-and lost to Senator-eject Frank L. Smith...
...learn to respect "Old Age." You mention his mother who is 80 years old doing a day's milking well, I just want you to know that it takes a good woman to do a day's milking, and even if she is 80 years old, I bet, she could show some of you birds how to keep alive, why don't you Pen Pushers be "sports" and give the people from the other side a chance to know that the Americans are "Real." Pick on "Tom" he can stand a little picking, there is lots...
This year I am voting for Al Smith and I will bet you a 10 years' subscription to TIME that I won't be let down. What...
...Brooklyn is another matter. It is near home, available for his experiments. His plans for the Standard Union are expansive and expensive. He has made a bet with himself that he can make the paper break even by January...
...retort to recent racial increments of the Smith following (see p. 8), announcement was made last week that Herbert N. Straus, secretary & treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store), would be Republican treasurer for New York State. At the Kansas City convention, Mr. Straus offered to bet large sums at 2 to i that Hoover would carry, not merely New York State, but New York City itself against Smith. His first public stroke in his new office was to write letters to 3,600 golf clubs and ask them to close for a few hours on election...