Word: trenton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced that half the people of the U. S. approve of gambling, in church or out. He saw that, out of more than 200 Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops, not more than a dozen or so banned Bingo as a means of raising money. He heard that priests in Trenton, N. J. defied police attempting to enforce the law against gambling, were backed up by a grand jury; that "bingo-mad" women in Detroit hissed, hooted, flew at raiding police; that in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maryland, legislators were urged to legalize games like Bingo...
...Trenton, N. J., Rocco Favorito & wife, convicted of conspiracy to defraud, declared before the State Supreme Court that as man & wife they were legally one, therefore could not be guilty of conspiracy. The Court ruled that man & wife are legally...
...travel books, reference books). Its setting is Virginia from 1754 to 1806, easily the most fact-packed era in U. S. history. Miss Page, who once wanted to be a history professor, gets all the facts in-Indian trouble, tax trouble, Patrick Henry's rebel-rousing, the Declaration, Trenton, Saratoga, Lafayette off Rhode Island, the Constitution and how it grew, the rise of the Republicans (later called Democrats), everything from A to the XYZ affair-but so sweetly does she coat her historical pill that it might well be prescribed for students who are sick of textbooks...
...Ignorant of American history, Herr Hitler overlooked the Hessian mercenaries whom George Washington routed in the Battle of Trenton...
Since 1934, according to proceedings instituted in Trenton's Chancery Court, Mr. Kenny has spent much time ghosting a two-volume legal tome to sell for $30 under the title of Dougal Herr on Marriage, Divorce and Separation in New Jersey. His pay at first was $40 a week, was later reported at $50 and $60. In addition his author-employer, Advisory Master in Chancery Dougal Herr, gave him a 40% stock interest in a firm called Legal Publications, Inc. of Hoboken, formed to publish and sell the book...