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...hardest-fought engagements between the Loyalist factions took place near the old Royal Palace, in West Madrid on the high bank of the Manzanares River within plain view of some ten miles of Franco entrenchments. The Communist stronghold was in the partly completed Government buildings on the old race-track course in northeastern Madrid, less than two miles from the Franco trenches in University City. At one time the Communist revolters surged down the Paseo de Recoletos to the famed Plaza de Cibeles, on which are located the buildings of the Banco de Espana, the central post office...
...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, described...
Novel based on the wire service providing race-track information to poolroom bookmakers, with much whipped-up and unconvincing material on the size of the racket, and much melodrama on the attempts of racketeers to get control of it. The best section, telling how dumb Joe Dugan of Kansas City unwittingly beat up a powerful gangster, who thereafter thought the worst mob yet had come to town, is so funny that the rest of the book seems flatter by contrast...
David Sholtz is a 46-year-old Brooklyn German who most surprisingly capped his career as President of the Florida Chamber of Commerce by getting himself elected Governor in 1932. In Tallahassee, Governor Sholtz's career was notable for the amiability he showed toward Florida horse and dog race-track owners. Following a series of articles written for Publisher Moe Annenberg's Miami Tribune by a onetime pressagent for Joseph E. Widener's Hialeah Park, named Ollie Gore, Florida's State Senate last May adopted a resolution for an investigation of the former Governor...
...muscled in on dimpled Shirley Temple's territory in Bright Eyes three years ago hollering for a gat, she has continued to rise in the affections of the U. S. public. She now stands sixth in box-office popularity. Plumpish, 11-year-old Jane, mixed up with a race-track crowd, repairs a shaky romance, helps nurse an injured race horse back to health, paces him to a neck-and-neck Derby finish...