Word: slot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bowling alleys, restaurants. Says an Atlanta Eagle: "Our best weapons are bingo, dancing, and a good bar." In San Mateo, Calif., the Elks boosted attendance from 40% to 70% of enrolled membership by installing a swimming pool. In bone-dry Princeton, Ky. (pop. 5,388), one lodge makes its slot machines and beer parlor a drawing card. The Knights of Columbus' San Salvador Council No. 1 in New Haven, Conn, holds "National Nights," when it serves up Irish, Italian or Polish dinners. But the new devices have yet to boost attendance at solemn, often boring business meetings. Says...
...Slot Luck. In Uniontown, Pa., Mrs. Ann Pratt testified during an inquiry into "for amusement only" pinball machines, that she had once spent five hours and $110 trying to get back $25, was still determined to keep playing until she won back the $3,000 she had lost over the past four years...
...Joiners of America, a key dowel in the U.S. labor movement for more than 30 years. Before his death in 1953 he had bequeathed his claw hammer to his complaisant son Maurice, who finished construction of the union by bringing the membership to 850,000. cut for himself a slot in the loftiest beams of labor leadership-vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., member of the executive council. Last week at 60, Carpenter Maurice Hutcheson dodged the well-aimed hammer blows of a Senate investigating committee...
...unfamiliar face, but to the gamblers in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish, southwest of New Orleans, he looked like an all right guy. He thumbed his racing form with professional elan and flashed a horse-choking roll of bills when he placed a bet or got quarters for the slot machines. These were such solid credentials that the gamblers never bothered to ask who the stranger...
After ten days and nights, Strickland had the facts and figures he needed. In his five installments, Strickland documented the corruption with such facts as the addresses of 27 places where he found illegal slot machines, told where to lay bets or roll dice, and reported: "I have seen horse bets placed, and openly discussed, while a policeman sat drinking a cup of coffee almost within arm's reach of the bookie." Strickland's summation of Jefferson Parish: "A giant new octopus of organized gambling is flexing its tentacles for an even bigger grab. It is little short...