Word: huntting
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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...
...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...
...musical god, incomparable and unapproachable. No ordinary successor could begin to fill his boots. The Philharmonic directors sat through many a worried session, finally offered the post to Germany's Wilhelm Furtwangler who relinquished it when he heard of the stormy protests against his Nazi connections. The hunt went on until last week when five conductors were announced for a season cut down from 30 to 24 weeks. One was a Briton, one a Russian, one a Rumanian, one a Mexican, one a Pole...