Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State 99,228 voters, telephone-subscribers and club members were for Landon, 34,120 for Roosevelt. When he saw this discrepancy, the News's energetic Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson summoned an editor, had him get the Digest's Publisher Wilfred J. Funk on the telephone, offer to bet him $10,000 against $5,000 that the News's straw vote was more accurate for New York State than the Digest's poll...
Though he still "didn't know of an easier way to make $10,000," if the wager were on the final figures of Digest and News, Mr. Funk felt that "as a matter of policy it would be impossible for the Literary Digest to bet on its' own poll. . . . The magazine takes no sides . . . plays no favorites...
Captain Patterson and the Newsmen airily labeled this sensible stand as "walking out" on a "tentative promise" to take up the bet. Of his own poll, Captain Patterson remarked on the editorial page: "Only time will tell how accurate this poll is. . . . Our 1928 poll was inaccurate. . . . Since that time, we have reliably predicted results in this State...
...Ferrara. When representatives of the Jacobs-Ferrara lofts came home first in several pigeon races, the partners turned their thoughts to bigger things. In 1924 they invested in a race horse named Demijohn. This was before Pigeon Fancier Jacobs had ever seen a horse race or even made a bet...
...thousands of horse races he has seen since, Mr. Jacobs has bet on remark ably few. Unlike most trainers, who hope to enlarge their earnings by wagering on their products, he made it his purpose from the outset to derive a surer if more modest income solely from prizes. By 1929 he had achieved his ends sufficiently to impress a Florida colonel, one Isidor Bieber, who hired him to train his B. B. Stable. Last year Hirsch Jacobs bought the Bieber horses, settled down to work in earnest. Since 1933, the first year he led the list...