Word: pari
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Roosevelt asked a committee of the Massachusetts Legislature to record him in favor of a bill to permit pari-mutuels at racetracks within the State...
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...
...high tariff against Cuba and they objected to Philippine free trade in this commodity. There is no question that they were perfectly justified in wishing to end the competition of American and Philippine sugar production. But American capital had previously overdeveloped cane plantations in Cuba; and the depression coming pari passu with high tariff was the cause of the present unrest. From the consumer's point of view these tariffs against Cuban sugar are unfortunate; the American growers cannot satisfactorily supply the market demand, and Cuban sugar is cheaper and of a higher grade. If the Philippine production could...
...sets. With many of the earlier loudspeakers, the only sounds possible to their narrow compass were the modulations of the crooner (an express specialization for the radio) or the stridencies of the more African jazz. But dance music is returning to melody, popular singing to full vocal range, and pari passu the more artistic euphonies are coming into their...
...Social Discipline" in Philadelphia last week Secretary Wallace dwelt on the insufficiency of governmental machinery alone--the government, he said, can only provide the initiative and the framework--but instead of viewing this as counselling despair, he went on to emphasize the absolute necessity of developing social discipline pari passit with the development of the program of social control. There is no difference here in the problem perceived, the difference is merely in the way of looking...