Author: Kevin Flynn
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611687020
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The dramatic story of the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire Sweepstakes
American Sweepstakes
Author: Kevin Flynn
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611687020
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The dramatic story of the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire Sweepstakes
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611687020
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The dramatic story of the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire Sweepstakes
American Sweepstakes
Author: Kevin Flynn
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611688264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
By 1963 public lotteries - a time-honored if tarnished method of raising revenue for everything from the Roman roads to Washington's Continental Army - had been outlawed in the United States for seventy years. The only legal gambling in America was found in Nevada, where mob involvement had at first been an open secret, and then revealed as no secret at all. In New Hampshire - a conservative, rural state with no sales tax and persistent problems with funding education - state legislator Larry Pickett had filed a bill to establish a lottery in every legislative session since 1953. To the surprise of many, it won passage a decade later and was signed into law by John King, the state's first Democratic governor in forty years. American Sweepstakes describes how King assembled an unlikely group of supporters - including a celebrated FBI agent and the staunchly conservative publisher of the state's leading newspaper - to establish the first state lottery in the nation, paving the way for what is today a $78 billion enterprise. Despite the remonstrations of the Catholic Church, the threat of arrest by the federal government, the strident denunciations of nearly every newspaper editorialist in the country, and the very real fear that the lottery would be co-opted by the mob, eleven thoroughbred racehorses leapt from the gate on September 12, 1964, in the first New Hampshire Sweepstakes, ushering in the lottery age in America.
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611688264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
By 1963 public lotteries - a time-honored if tarnished method of raising revenue for everything from the Roman roads to Washington's Continental Army - had been outlawed in the United States for seventy years. The only legal gambling in America was found in Nevada, where mob involvement had at first been an open secret, and then revealed as no secret at all. In New Hampshire - a conservative, rural state with no sales tax and persistent problems with funding education - state legislator Larry Pickett had filed a bill to establish a lottery in every legislative session since 1953. To the surprise of many, it won passage a decade later and was signed into law by John King, the state's first Democratic governor in forty years. American Sweepstakes describes how King assembled an unlikely group of supporters - including a celebrated FBI agent and the staunchly conservative publisher of the state's leading newspaper - to establish the first state lottery in the nation, paving the way for what is today a $78 billion enterprise. Despite the remonstrations of the Catholic Church, the threat of arrest by the federal government, the strident denunciations of nearly every newspaper editorialist in the country, and the very real fear that the lottery would be co-opted by the mob, eleven thoroughbred racehorses leapt from the gate on September 12, 1964, in the first New Hampshire Sweepstakes, ushering in the lottery age in America.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Investigation of "preselected Winners" Sweepstakes Promotions
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Activities of Regulatory Agencies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prize contests in advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Investigates use of sweepstake promotions, their fairness to both contestants and small businesses, possibility of fraud (including mail fraud), and impact of promotional mailings on postal system. Includes results of evaluation of contests conducted, and examples of promotional materials, v.1; Includes responses to committee questionnaire on sweepstakes practices from companies using sweepstakes promotions, v.2.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prize contests in advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Investigates use of sweepstake promotions, their fairness to both contestants and small businesses, possibility of fraud (including mail fraud), and impact of promotional mailings on postal system. Includes results of evaluation of contests conducted, and examples of promotional materials, v.1; Includes responses to committee questionnaire on sweepstakes practices from companies using sweepstakes promotions, v.2.
Deceptive Mailings and Sweepstakes Promotions
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The History of Sweepstakes
Author: Lawrence Curtin
Publisher: Lawrence F Curtin
ISBN: 9780965840149
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: Lawrence F Curtin
ISBN: 9780965840149
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Author: Michael Rupert
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573681943
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573681943
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Select Committee on Small Business
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
U.S. Army Recruiting News
Author: United States. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
U.S. Army Recruiting News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description