Word: bettors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...betting letter, Bettor Hill said: "Your muchly touted Bill Corbus TIME entitled 'Stanford's All-American guard' never was named for any position on Grantland Rice's All-American, much less for the position of right guard." In the plain meaning of this sentence, Bettor Hill was wrong. Bill Corbus was an "All-American guard" on Grantland Rice's 1932 team. Now Bettor Hill says he meant that TIME'S error lay not in placing Bill Corbus but in using the phrase "All-American." Even granting that this is what he meant, Bettor Hill...
From 1923 to 1925 Bettor Shouse lost $22,458 by picking slow horses at Maryland and Kentucky race tracks. Race horses he owned in partnership cost him another $6,273. In 1924 he dropped $1,750 by wagering that John William Davis, Democratic nominee for President, would carry Maryland...
...Bettor Shouse declined to pay $4,840 of the Treasury's assessments against him for three years, writing off his $30,481 total for horses and politics. The Board of Tax Appeals, after mulling over the case two years, sanctioned the deduction of the racing bets on the ground that Mr. Shouse followed racing for profit; but ruled that the election losses "were the result of an illegal transaction" and therefore nondeductible. A compromise settlement of $1,218 was accepted by the Treasury...