Word: race-track
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...Justice Jackson answered the one question which the Supreme Court clerk's office is most frequently asked: What to wear? Formal dress was once required, but today, either morning dress or a dark business suit is appropriate. "You will not be stopped from arguing if you wear a race-track suit or sport a rainbow necktie. You will just create a first impression that you have strayed in at the wrong...
...fired a handful of sheriffs and constables (including Dade County's wealthy Sheriff Jimmy Sullivan). The quizzing went on and the governor saw another log overturned, right on the Statehouse lawn. Out scurried one of the governor's old friends, William Johnston, big-shot Miami and Chicago race-track operator, tagged by the Kefauver Committee as "an associate of Capone mobsters." Johnston unwillingly recalled that he had whistled up $135,000 for Warren's successful election campaign. Meanwhile, Warren reinstated Miami's Sheriff Sullivan, and his critics were back on the trail. Warren denied all their...
...condemn the "socalled 'innocent' forms of gambling, such as legalized race-track wagers . . . lotteries, bingo and all activities which encourage the false belief that life consists of getting something for nothing...
...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope in a wild, gagged-up farce of race-track touts and Broadway con games (TIME, April...
...called 'innocent' forms of gambling, such as legalized race-track wagers, betting on athletic events, lotteries, bingo and the like, contribute to weakening the moral fiber of the individual and lower the tone of the community...