Word: slotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of enterprises responsible for some 500 dingy "sportlands" in which an estimated 500,000 U. S. devotees of bagatelle gather every week to piddle away their time. It is responsible also for some 250,000 bagatelle boards, operated by a nickel-in-the-slot, situated in bars, hotel lobbies, lunchrooms and cigar stores throughout the U. S. Last week, bigwigs of the pin-game industry had the most exciting week they have experienced since, for mysterious reasons connected with Depression, nervous introspection and an appetite for echolalia, the modern brand of bagatelle, played on a glass-enclosed pin-studded...
Tsar. To bigwigs in the pin-game industry, official antagonism is nothing new. For the past year, pin-game operators all over the U. S. have been intermittently assailed by the authorities. Since many of them got into the industry from the peep-show or slot-machine fields, they are at no loss to discover means of dealing with such situations. Last week, frightened by District Attorney Foley's attack, pin-game entrepreneurs had the foresight, even before Mayor LaGuardia's ban went into effect, of trying a completely new expedient: election of a "Tsar," like baseball...
This paragraph attempts to connect the death of Mr. Middleton with the election. This is clearly erroneous as the cause of the murder has been determined and was found to be due to an investigation by Mr. Middleton of slot-machine activities in his county, all of which is completely divorced from the primary election...
While the real cause of the murder of County Attorney Middleton probably will never be known, most Kentucky officials agree with Reader Rosenstein that slot-machine racketeers were back of it. Six men are in Harlan County jail, under indictment for first degree murder...
...revealed as to the quality of evidence to be offered when the accused are brought to trial this autumn. One Bert Hollinger of Le Mars, ex-bootlegger and smalltime "fixer" now serving five years for extortion, testified that in 1933 he paid cash in return for the bootlegging and slot-machine privileges in Plymouth and Woodbury Counties to Attorney General O'Connor. "O'Connor said it was very strange that I would insist on wanting to make the first payment to him direct, and I told him that I didn't know him . . . and he said: 'Well, I know...