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...hands of the Senate clock overlapped, Vice President Garner laid down his cigar, blew out a puff of smoke, brought his gavel down smartly...
Austrian monarchists, flocking to an exhibition in Vienna of relics of the late great Emperor Franz Josef I, stared at a tray of cigar butts, badly chewed and bearing this label: "Certified by his valet, Ketterl, to have been smoked by His Majesty on the 12th of August...
...Shaw cornered the winter-book business by paying their losses while almost all their competitors, who had laid odds as high as 100-to-1, felt forced to "welsh." At Tom Kearney's office-a large room in the rear of a 20-by-25 ft. wood-paneled cigar store opposite the Jefferson Hotel where he lives-nine clerks handle his business at five long tables. When in good health, Tom Kearney spends most of his time behind his cigar counter which, unlike those run as blinds in most bookmaking establishments, actually makes money. His private office...
...kinds of bookmakers in the U. S.: those who operate at race tracks and those who handle bets elsewhere for the convenience of their customers. Of the latter, there are about 10,000 in Chicago, 20,000 in New York, 100,000 scattered about the country, in cigar stores, poolrooms, newsstands, lunch rooms. Some are agents for big bookmaking establishments. The majority are independent. Since pari-mutuels-machine betting at race tracks through a general pool, in which the odds are determined by the amount bet on each horse and of which the state and track each get a share...
Frank Erickson, onetime waiter, is now the largest commissioner in the U. S. His business-derived mostly from agents in cigar stores, poolrooms and newsstands along the Eastern seaboard-is backed by about $4,000,000. When he goes to Belmont Park, he sits in the clubhouse among socialites who patronize the betting-shed bookmakers-of whom Frank Erickson finances four. Trusted implicitly by his enormous clientele, Bookmaker Erickson was reported to have lost $150,000 last summer, mostly at a Saratoga meeting which put many of his less substantial rivals out of business...