Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locality. Said he: "I submitted the bids as a private dealer, not as a representative of the Ford Motor Co. ... I do not feel that I should be penalized because of any disagreement between Mr. Ford and the Recovery Administration." Observers were willing to bet that Comptroller McCarl would uphold the letter of the law and award Dealer Sabine his contract regardless of NRA. But while Tsar McCarl cogitated, Henry Ford backed down. Mr. Ford would not sign the automobile code because he mortally hates & fears collective bargaining, one of the Blue Eagle's proudest plumes. Fortnight...
...satisfied." Said the sheriff of Somerset County: "Investigation? Oh, yes. Well, boys, I was right in the thick of that affair. . I looked right in the faces of some of that mob and I didn't recognize a single soul- not a single soul. I bet they were from down Virginia...
Host Carter marshalled the Farley-Garner party out to his box at Arlington. Downs to witness the rebirth of horse-race betting in Texas. There an unforeseen unpleasantness occurred. While Host Carter was out making a bet, Governor Miriam (''Ma") Ferguson and her husband James, who was impeached as Governor in 1917, popped in uninvited to chat with Postmaster General Farley. The Carter v. Ferguson feud is an old one. At a football game in 1925, Amon Carter, full of high spirits, paraded back & forth behind the Fergusons' seats crowing in behalf of the man who succeeded...
...National City Bank, as well as the Chase, Machado was worth all he got--while in power. Unfortunately, it looked like such a good thing that it will be some time before the Chase, the National, and the American firms recover even the buttons from the shirts they bet there. Imperialism of this nature is very pleasant while it lasts, but the hangover is dreadful. CASTOR...
...gives him a home. Still, Steve Brodie has no saloon. When two brewers offer to give him one if he can acquire a following, he thinks up the scheme of jumping off Brooklyn Bridge. His wager with Connors is a fine funeral against Connors' barroom. Brodie wins the bet. Chuck Connors thinks he did it dishonestly, gives him a thrashing on an East River barge. The Bowery ends with a reconciliation between Connors and Brodie. They are off to Cuba together, with Swipes concealed in the rumble seat of a gun-wagon...