Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vladimir Poliakoff (Augur), White Russian newspaperman who snoops around odd corners of European chancelleries and sometimes pulls out something good, last week reported to the New York Times that British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax had sent, through an unnamed emissary, to German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop an odd but simple and direct message: "If you want war you can have war." Almost as defiant was Prime Minister Chamberlain, who delivered the most direct warning he has yet given to the Reich and boasted about Britain's newly found military power...
Long before the Civil War there was horse racing in New Jersey. In the 1880s Jersey's Monmouth Park, with its imported British bookmaking system as well as new-fangled pari-mutuel betting machines, was the rendezvous for New York's fashionable "400." But the citizens of New Jersey in 1897 decided that gambling was a menace, outlawed it, killed racing...
...decided to revive horse racing, voted to legalize pari-mutuel betting in their State. Taxes on the pari-mutuel take at four proposed tracks (probable sites: Camden, Atlantic City, Asbury Park and a spot near the Jersey end of the George Washington Bridge, just across the river from New York City) will add $5,000,000 a year for State Relief, avert a threatened State income tax (which Jerseyites have so far escaped) and put 6,000 men to work. At least that is what the politicians promised the voters...
While New York race-track owners were moaning over the idea of local competition and turf men from coast to coast were frowning on the current overexpansion of the horse-racing business (there will be over 60 supposedly Grade A tracks in the U. S. next year), California went a step further in using horse racing to balance a budget. To Governor Olson, the State Legislature last week sent a bill legalizing (and supervising) poolroom bookmaking and other away-from-the-track horse-race betting. Taxation on California's handbook betting (which is not limited to California tracks) will...
...David Stern's New York Post, which gave itself periodic shots in the arm until George Backer bought it and took it out of the narcotic ward last week, began selling cheap records as a promotion stunt last winter. The Post's Business Manager Jacob Omansky, ardent music-bibber, invented the scheme: the paper commissioned RCA Victor to make a series of special recordings, guaranteeing their cost ($150,000) should the venture fail. The music to be recorded was chosen by the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff, a key figure in the plan because he is close...