Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stocks is not any more gambling than the purchase and quick resale of lots. . . . The amount of margin upon which a man trades does not determine the gambling element. ... A man can buy stock for a small cash payment . . . and there is no reason to call him a gambler because he sells the stock shortly after at a profit. ... If the trading in stocks . . . is immoral, then the church should eliminate from her membership the heads of stock exchange houses, clerks, bookkeepers . . . the men and women who buy and sell stock...
Just when Tammany Hall was bracing itself for a New York City-wide election this fall, a bloody body was last week plunked down upon its political doorstep. Frank Marlow, murdered Broadway gambler and racketeer, had hardly been settled in his coffin before a so-called Better City Government League nominated one-time (1918-25) Tammany Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan to run as an independent candidate against Tammany Mayor James John Walker. The Hylan war-cry: Stamp out crime, vice, corruption...
...Gambler Marlow had been a friend of Gambler Arnold Rothstein, whose murder last fall (still unsolved) created a cloud of stories about the underworld entanglements of Tammany leaders (TIME, Dec. 24). Many a New York voter had begun to forget the Rothstein murder when the Marlow murder occurred. Grover Aloysius Whalen, the fastidious police chief who was inducted to quiet the Rothstein uproar, squared his handsomely tailored shoulders, sat up late seeking clues. His detectives swarmed spectacularly through the Broadway brightlight district making raids, seeking witnesses. Other detectives chased a trail leading to Boston. Said the Commissioner: "Actions speak louder...
Kenyan College (Gambler, Ohio) Albert Henry Wiggin, board chairman (Chase National)* LL.D...
...late John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, famed Manhattan and Chicago financier, was a fantastic gambler.? But unlike most of his sort he left a large fortune. Last week the Gates fortune was making a hurly-burly in the Gatesian town of St. Charles, Ill. There a new post-office is to be built. Mrs. Delora Angell Norris, niece of the late Mr. Gates, who received most of the Gates estate and controls some $80,000,000 (Texas Oil Co.) wants it built on the East bank of the Fox River, where she owns a community house, a cinema...