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...were seven other articles of impeachment, brought in earlier last week. Frankly trivial, these accused him, among other things, of spending $2,800 in State funds for a grand piano for the Executive Mansion three days after publicly stating that he would not do so; of pardoning a Memphis gambler while he was still a fugitive from justice; of dismissing two State highway commissioners because they would not "abdicate and surrender their official consciences"; of failing to account for public funds until after his reelection. The Governor's friends and allies were confident, however, that the defeat...
...great mathematicians (like M. Henri Poincare) who have applied their minds to games of chance know, the typical gambler plays a "system" which is either quite nonsensical or so involved that its basic worthlessness is well concealed by complexities which have an air of being profound. There are three sure ways to win at baccarat: 1) deliberate cheating by sleight of hand in drawing a card; 2) marked cards; and 3) a prepared deck introduced by a confederate croupier into the "shoe" from which cards are drawn. Before the War an Italian gang made a big haul at Monte Carlo...
...thinking little about her parentage, feeling much about herself. Her legal father prospered in railroads, enjoyed giving her every advantage. But even as a schoolgirl Nasa had a tendency to scratch and bite, see red instead of rosy. When she married, too young, it was the wrong man: a gambler, a roué, diseased. To her family Nasa put up a falsetto front, but when her husband divorced her about the time the U. S. declared war on Germany, she went to Manhattan, amused herself with many a departing soldier, gob and leatherneck. She further amused herself by sending...
Died. Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, 44, Manhattan gangster, gambler, a power in the savage Unione Siciliana; shot dead by two unknown men in a Coney Island speakeasy...
Paul Madvig was the city boss; he had risen to the top of the pile by patience and "guts." But it was Gambler Ned Beaumont's brains that helped him out of many a tough spot. Beaumont did not like the idea of Madvig's supporting aristocratic Senator Henry, thought still less of Madvig's sparking the Senator's daughter Janet. When the Senator's son was found murdered, suspicion soon fell on Madvig, but strangely enough failed to wreck the political alliance between the boss and the aristocrat. Ned Beaumont was used to fishy doings. He said little...