Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louisville, where the first Saturday of May is known as Derby Day, 6,500 racing diehards elbowed their way to bet ting windows and wagered $11,483. The winner, Broken Spring, paid $2.50 on a 50? ticket for waddling home in 1:20 3/5 for the 20-foot course. It was the first and perhaps only Kentucky Turtle Derby. (At nearby Churchill Downs, 30 Derby candidates were in training for a hoped-for June 2 running of the 71st Kentucky classic...
...Hollywood has seen some strange sights. But TIME is willing to bet a small Balkan kingdom against the head of Actor Morris' press agent that Hollywood will never see Britain's ex-King Edward VIII as a cinemactor...
...gone home to Spartanburg, S.C., but at the call of President Truman he hurried back to Washington. Before he had been back twelve hours, politicos were tagging him as the man Harry Truman would lean on as adviser on foreign affairs (see INTERNATIONAL). Many of them were ready to bet that before long Jimmy Byrnes would replace Ed Stettinius as Secretary of State...
...family arms business. His firm had a sharp reputation for circumventing the restrictions of the Allied Control Commissions. His own politics were opportunistic. Democracy, he said, "is a luxury that might be borne, perhaps, in prosperous periods." He backed Prince Ernst Riidiger von Starhemberg and his fascist Home Guard, bet on Dollfuss and Mussolini to stave off Hitler. In 1937 he saw the handwriting on the wall, deftly transferred his holdings abroad...
Winston Churchill's longtime bulldog faith in the solidarity of the British Empire was revealed in a 44-year-old wager made public by a Manhattan rare-book dealer, who had just purchased the sheet of paper on which Churchill had written out the terms of the bet. On Jan. 23, 1901, while on a lecture tour of the U.S., Churchill bet ?100 against Minneapolis Bibliophile James C. Young's assertion that "within ten years from this date the British Empire will . . . lose one quarter of India or of Canada or of Australia...