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...their slips, bankers who hired the controllers and paid a share of their take to Dutch Schultz. In the early 1930's, numbers grossed some $60,000 a day, $20,000,000 a year. To make it more profitable, Schultz used not Federal Reserve figures but combinations of pari-mutuel race-track odds, which the racket had ways of rigging. To preserve his monopoly, Schultz bought political protection. He bought it, said Mr. Dewey, from Jimmy Hines. To deliver it, Jimmy Hines elected Mr. Dewey's predecessor as district attorney, William Copeland Dodge. Mr. Hines, said Mr. Dewey...
...after Christmas 1934, Los Angeles merchants furiously chewed their holiday cigars as they read their morning papers. A quarter of a million dollars had been poured into pari-mutuel betting machines at the opening of the nearby Santa Anita racetrack the day before-the first appearance of horseracing in Los Angeles County in 25 years. That was the beginning of the merchants' woes. For 50-odd days each winter for four succeeding winters, a half million of hard-earned Los Angeles dollars were wagered every day on horse races. The more the merchants tried to discourage betting (by newspaper...
...seventh race at California's Santa Anita Park one day last week, No. 6 was a horse named Rock X, No. 5 was Bright Mark. At his window under the grandstand, just before post time, a little ticket seller named Lonnie Gray was impassively, handing out $10 pari-mutuel tickets to a line of impatient betters. Suddenly a batch of tickets was poked back through the window and an irate customer demanded that he be given what he had asked for-five tickets on No. 6, not No. 5. Because the tickets had been punched out and recorded, Lonnie...
Presiding over his radio program of incredibilities, Robert Leroy Ripley beckoned to the microphone a tubby lyric tenor who had played obscure cinema parts. Listeners heard a thin voice with forced higher registers pour out "O Pari-diso" from L'Africaine, one of the favorite arias of the late great Enrico Caruso. Announced Mr. Ripley: "You have just heard the voice of Enrico Caruso Jr.- believe...
...brother of Boston Traveler's popular Columnist Neal O'Hara, Walter O'Hara is a quick-witted Irishman, onetime Rhode Island mill operator, who suddenly appeared on the State political scene when the Legislature legalized pari-mutuel horserace gambling in 1934. Promoter O'Hara quickly organized Narragansett Racing Association with the help of friends, bought 130 acres from an oldtime Woonsocket saloonkeeper for $150,000, built a track in seven weeks and began running profitable races before the paint was dry on the grandstand. Taking 62% of all bets made, besides gate receipts and concessions, Narragansett...