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They sat on the edges of their chairs, teetering, twisting. Their clothes and manners showed that few of them were at ease amid the splendors of Manhattan's swank Ritz-Carlton Hotel. But it was less their surroundings than the fateful decision that each & every one of them was about to make that caused them to squirm nervously...
...sure $2,000 return on each one's $2.50 investment. It also meant a chance to win $150,000, $75,000 or $50,000 for tickets on the horses which took first, second or third places. But there were 37 horses entered in the race. And at the Ritz-Carlton last week sat a big, bland, dapper, young Briton ready to pay from $3.500 to $16,800 cash for tickets on a large number of likely winners...
Last week Britons were technically violating it by the hundred thousand to subscribe to this year's Irish Sweepstakes. In the closing hours of last week's conference of the Conservative Party, up rose Sir William Henry Davison, a fellow member with Atholl of the swank Carlton Club. "Ordinary citizens," he cried, "resent the Government's attempts to ... prevent them from having a flutter. . . ." (Cheers.) Before the party leaders could collect themselves, Sir William shouted his motion: ". . . The Government should give facilities for a national lottery." Aye! And up went hundreds of hands. Nay! A feeble...
...Irish Hospital tickets, leaving his associates to handle the domestic business which this year gave ''Duggie" an interest of approximately $2.500.000 in the Derby. By the time the horses lined up at Epsom Downs last week, Sidney Freeman in his Ritz Carlton suite was busy computing what profit the firm stood to make out of his U. S. commitments-over $100,000 for tickets or shares in tickets of timid ticketholders...
...Ritz Carlton, where he heard the race by radio, Sidney Freeman counted his profits, gayly refused to reveal the result-except that for tickets on the winning horses, worth $225.000 to him. he had paid...