Word: grands
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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...
...Association for Legalizing American Lotteries, on which the Post Office took its first and firmest action, is headed by Major Thomas George Lanphier, U. S. A., retired. Of proceeds from the sale of numbered applications for membership in the Association. Grand National Treasure Hunt keeps 50% for expenses and 25% "for itself." Harder to win than Golden Stakes, Grand National Treasure Hunt involves eight cartoons, lists 30 song titles under each one. Winners, picked by a jury of "artists and song experts," get prizes totaling...
...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...
...have gone six months ago. The Imperial Guard of Haile Selassie was smashed. The Negus himself was supposed to be hiding, beardless in the bushes. With a little luck Italian troops should reach Dessye by Easter. Then II Duce could demand peace on his own terms. To the Fascist Grand Council last week he roared...
...heavyweight title when and if he fights James J. Braddock, the problem of what to do with it afterward is already even more puzzling. To canny Promoter Mike Jacobs, who has exclusive rights to Fisticuffer Louis' services, an inviting solution of this question was presented last week: a grand tour of Europe. For Fisticuffer Louis such an expedition might have notable advantages. If he beats Max Schmeling in June and Braddock later this summer, he will have trouble finding opponents worth fighting. In exhibition bouts he might be a more profitable attraction abroad than at home...