Word: slots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collins fought to outlaw slot machines, for higher state taxes on dog-track gambling, for higher educational standards and better mosquito control to hold down that old Southern malady, malaria. "I can hardly remember a summer when I wasn't sick with the chills and fever of malaria," Collins said last week. "I used to drink Dr. Groves's tasteless chill tonic by the barrel. I guess it was all that pulled a lot of us through. Well, when I became a legislator I got a chance to work for remedial legislation. Now there are doctors who have...
...Hecksher '57 won handily from Juan Hermosilla, 3-0, for the Crimson's only victory. Cal Place, playing second man, and Lee Folger, playing fourth, both dropped 3 to 0 encounters, while Captain Pete Milton in the third slot and Charlie MacVeagh in the fifth each bowed...
...Morrison, veteran in the unlimited class, will be absent from the line-up because of the death Thursday of his father. In addition, Bob Gilmore, who successfully filled the 167-1b, slot last year, has only recently returned to action after a knee operation. He will wrestle...
Eliot, with 292.5 points, moved up a notch from last year's fifth place slot by finishing second is soccer and third in touch football...
...Indictments. In 1946 she badgered the county into grand jury investigations that produced 64 indictments against slot-machine operators and liquor racketeers. The same year she landed in trouble when she interviewed the widow of a Negro during the trial of five white men charged with killing him. Since the widow was a witness in the case, the judge found Editor Smith in contempt of court, told her: "I realize you are putting on a great campaign for law and order, but if you read history, you will see that the only Perfect Being did not make much...