Word: paris
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clubhouse were John D. Hertz, Jack Dempsey, Postmaster General Farley, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane and J. H. Louchheim of Philadelphia, who bet $1,000 on his Morpluck and then contrived to lose his pari-mutuel tickets to a pickpocket who got no good out of them. A squad of National Guardsmen used clubs to keep the spectators in the infield under control. The spectators threw chairs at the guardsmen...
...handle bets elsewhere for the convenience of their customers. Of the latter, there are about 10,000 in Chicago, 20,000 in New York, 100,000 scattered about the country, in cigar stores, poolrooms, newsstands, lunch rooms. Some are agents for big bookmaking establishments. The majority are independent. Since pari-mutuels-machine betting at race tracks through a general pool, in which the odds are determined by the amount bet on each horse and of which the state and track each get a share -have been legalized in 23 states, bookmaking has increased instead of declined. Big bettors and system...
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...
Sure enough, Evening won. But the joy of his thousands of backers turned sour as Bolsheviks learned what happens in pari-mutuels when a favorite wins. After the State had taken its fat percentage there was just enough left to return to each better on Evening exactly the sum he had bet. Only real winners were the Soviet stables which entered the four leading horses. Among them the State divided a purse of 30,000 rubles, part to be used in paying bonuses to drivers, trainers and stable boys of the winning mounts. Evening's driver, called "Citizen Pianov...