Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around the U. S. laws against lotteries is to think up a high-sounding name for an organization, enroll "members" at so much per head, hold a "contest" in which they may win large cash prizes. Last week the Grand National Treasure Hunt, which sells $1 "applications for membership" in the Association for Legalizing American Lotteries, was just ending its third such contest when the Post Office Department clapped a fraud order on the scheme, barred the mails to its promoters...
...under fraudulent pretenses. Golden Stakes, run by Golden Stakes Advertising Corp., does not pretend to any motive of social benefit. Golden Stakes tickets, at $1 each, entitle their holders to see a flying circus at Fitzmaurice Flying Field at Massapequa Park, L. I. Ticket-holders may also enter a contest which consists of picking titles for six cartoons from the names of 25 songs listed under each. First prize: $60,000. Other prizes amount to $90,000. The organization's vice president and counsel, at $100 per week, is Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...count of the Department against the Treasure Hunt was that its numbered tickets were designed to look like Irish Sweepstakes tickets, thereby deceiving customers. Also, the Department solemnly averred, the Hunt was "nothing but a guessing contest." The winner of one contest, named Irene Varga, reported that "she had a dream, or went into a trance, and while in the trance concentrated and the names of the pictures came...
...Treasure Hunt promoters, it was announced, are still free to use the outgoing mails to return contestants' money or to award prizes in their current contest. But any letter addressed to Grand National Treasure Hunt or the Association for Legalizing American Lotteries will henceforth be stamped FRAUDULENT, returned to its sender...
...London, enrolled his son in the Royal Academy. Father Templeton got himself elected to the London County Council but found it unnecessary to spend any money after his son's first term. Thereafter Alec earned his way with scholarships. At 16, he bested 20,000 pianists in a contest sponsored by the London Daily Express. Alec Templeton won a grand piano, learning the contest piece as he has learned all his large repertoire, by hearing others play, listening to phonograph records, studying Braille texts...