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Shunned by gambler, and mutilated by superstitionist, the $2 bill must go. Such, at least, is the recommendation of Secretary Mellon's special Treasury Committee on Currency Revision. The reason given is protection against bill "raisers...
...Continent that a majority of the shares in the Casino are in the hands of Sir Basil Zaharoff, the mysterious European banker, whose millions are legion, and who has, it is reported, financed Emperors and Kings, wars and rebellions. The next largest shareholder is Gregory Vagliano, adventurer and gambler. On the night of March 12 of this year at the Sporting Club he-won 2,000,000 francs, the bulk of which was so great that it had to be carried to his hotel by Casino porters in ten waste paper baskets crammed to the limit of their capacity...
...fourth place, through the Grain Futures bill the agricultural group has tried to enable the farmer to cut out the commission man and the middle man, the warehouse man, the grain gambler, the curb broker. These men have always shown themselves more interested the welfare of themselves than in the producer...
...hands of that mysterious figure, the Common People. There has been no bitterness in this campaign; it has been a question of impressing upon the public how small a chance the other three opponents had of walking into the City Hall in an official capacity. A voter and a gambler both enjoy picking a winner. But if a voter were to take all the recent campaign speeches seriously, he would have difficulty in seeing which way the wind blew. One man deserves success at the polls today above all the rest, since he is the only one who promises...
...authority to speak that the -loss of Russia and the weakening of Italy as effective fighting forces are not causing the British and French to lose hope. The retreat of General Cadorna's forces is not considered a great German success, but rather a desperate gambler's throw, a final attempt to bring victory to the Teuton arms, an opportunity for the people of Berlin to hang out their flags and indulge in one of those celebrations which have become increasingly infrequent in the past months. It may eventually prove a cloud with a silver lining if the newly formed...