Word: stubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...littered in her boarding house. First came one normal, one tailless and one bobtailed kitten. Twelve hours later Mrs. Gannon's cat bore what looked like a splotched, botched Boston bull pup. Colored black, yellow and white, it had long, sharply pointed ears, short whiskers, stub tail, short doggish hair. Unlike cat or dog it was born with eyes open. And it could crawl at once. As it grew up it made noises like a cat, sniffed and gnawed bones like a dog. It rested with its paws stretched forward dog fashion, refused to frolic with its litter mates...
Procedure of the draw is simple. For every ticket sold, at $2.50 each, a stub with the buyer's name and address goes to Dublin. The stubs are churned together in a large drum. In another, smaller drum are churned slips of paper on which are written the names of the horses entered in the race. Of the money paid in to the lottery, about 60% goes for prizes. The prize money is divided into units of $500,000. For each unit one ticket-holder's name is drawn from the big drum simultaneously with the drawing...
...Within a few hours of the moment I nominated Eugene Talmadge for President [at the Macon convention], the wheels were set in motion to hang something-anything- on Georgia opponents of the National Administration. My wife was called on by Federal tax experts and made to show every check stub from 1933. They hoped to make a tax-evasion charge against me. Then they went after my brother. ... If you don't bow down and worship the Wallaces, the Tugwells and the Frankfurters, they want to put you in the penitentiary...
...American Liberty League, Alfred Emanuel Smith had violently condemned the New Deal, threatened to "take a walk" on Election Day (TIME, Feb. 3). The official comeback to this blast was delivered last week by the Happy Warrior's old political pal Joseph Taylor Robinson, the Vice- Presidential stub to the 1928 Democratic ticket. Since that luckless campaign. Arkansas' senior Senator had acquired in Franklin Roosevelt a new master to serve and revere...
...morning and adjust a bit of a chuckle to temper it. For what else could worry Yale so that it had to practice on Sunday if it were not the thought that Columbia's Lou Little and his boys would only wait about another week before devouring the Bulldog, stub tall...