Word: mutuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terming the legislative authorization for pari-mutuel betting on horse and dog-racing as "politically and socially disturbing," the Harvard Teachers Record appearing today asks "wise leadership" in the classroom in the hope of "more stringent laws regulating or prohibiting lotteries, slot machines, and all games of chance...
...Bolsheviks, schooled in austerity, were left behind last week as thrill-seeking young Communists staged in Moscow a lavish Red Derby complete with pari-mutuel betting. Since Moscow shops have lately been permitted to copy a few Paris models and sell them at fantastic prices to the wives of potent Reds, there were scores of modishly dressed women in the grandstands. To silence shocked old Bolsheviks, and give the Red Derby a veneer of serious purpose, great signboards were plastered with quotations from a recent speech by War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov: WITHOUT HORSES WE CAN'T WORK...
Sports events did booming business. Dog tracks at Miami were crowded every night. The thoroughbreds and oleanders were in full bloom at Joe Widener's Hialeah Park where pari-mutuel betting was averaging $250,000 a day. With little more than half the Hialeah racing season completed the State of Florida had already collected over $200,000 in taxes on betting and admissions-$50,000 more than last year. Crowds swarmed to Henry L. Doherty's Miami-Biltmore horseshow at Tropical Park to see an Army jumping team from Fort Riley beat Forts Myer, Sill, Benning, McPherson...
Your statement "commonest objection to legalizing pari-mutuel betting on horse races; it might pave the way for gambling on dog races, slot-machines, lotteries," in March 20 issue of TIME is grossly unfair to dog racing...
Commonest objection to legalizing pari-mutuel betting on horse races: it might pave the way for gambling on dog races, slot-machines, lotteries. New York State tried to evade this difficulty in 1913 by legalizing "oral" but not pari-mutuel betting. "Oral" bets (i. e., bets handled by bookmakers), where most racetracks are run at a loss, are estimated at $68,000,000 a year. To legalize pari-mutuel betting in New York would require an amendment to the State constitution, a referendum in 1935. To avoid delay, Assemblyman William Breitenbach was last week urging passage of a bill simply...