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...James L. Godfrey Our Vichy Gamble . By Langer William L. . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1946 . Pp. ix , 412 , xi . $3.75 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book Reviews 105 Our Vichy Gamble. By William L. Langer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Pp. ix, 412, xi...

...Jeffrey T. Nealon Duke University Press 2006 Jeffrey T. Nealon Take Me Out to the Slot Machines: Reflections on Gambling and Contemporary American Culture While for a century it was hailed as ‘‘the American pastime baseball has been...

... transformative consequences of white Southerners’ risky gamble on proslavery nationalism. It also lays out the methodological contribution of the book as an attempt to write a political history of the disenfranchised. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Blackburn Robin . 1988...

... of mind which condemned all gambling as a sin; that lotteries are socially harmless, even though they are technically gambling. But this is not true, because it is only a small part of the truth. It is true that the growing influence of the Protestant attitude towards gaming or gambling had its influence...

... problem. Within the memory of our fathers lotteries and gambling oper­ ations were sanctioned by law and used for the endowment of educational, philanthropic, and religious institutions. Now they are not considered quite the thing unless they are carried on under the auspices of a church! The gambling...

... secretly married the prim Madame de Maintenon. Now Louis began to impose a straitlaced morality on his court, where he exiled sod­ omites, publicly upbraided gigglers at Mass, and even sacked one of his chaplains for gambling in Paris. Most memoirists of the reign and historians of the Grand Siecle have...

... this one as a touchstone, finding private memories in public events.2 In contrast, my friend Pete s idea to use graduate school as a cover for gambling is the best I can do by way of any personal connection to the rela­ tionship between athletes and gamblers. This story has no emotional reso­ nance for me...

... of the Hughes methods have been in the matter of the Public Service Commissions Law and in that of the Anti-Gambling Acts. Governor Hughes s plan for the regulation of the public service corporations of New York State was, as Dr. Schurman says, the most thoroughgoing and radical measure of the kind that has...

... . Fabian Ann Vincent . (1990) 1999 . Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America . New York : Routledge . FCIC (Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission) . 2011 . Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United...

... smoking tobacco, the second is about consuming food containing or cooked in trans fats, and the third considers consumer safety, with particular emphasis on scandals involving products from Procter and Gamble and Mattel. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Freedom and Its Costs Many scholars, including...

... s Continental System, these failed. Like the Continental System, they also came very close to success. Meanwhile, Hitler had decided to deal with Russia. Professor Hinsley calls this a gamble. The altern­ ative to abandon the aim of an early end to the war and to concentrate on the Battle...

.... They are most frequent in football, where the opportunity is greatest, and less frequent in other forms of athletics. Second. The tone of college athletics is lowered by the gambling done by the students themselves on the contests. It is, of course, impossible to stop professional gamblers from making wagers...

... was domi- nated by business ethics and which stressed individual economic responsi- bility. 18 This combination of the prudential and genealogical limited the speculative by restoring a naturalized orderliness to the transmission and distribution of property. Unlike gambling which involves the denial...

... is the old stuccoed building just opposite the postoffice where its business was carried on now a feed store, voluminous records of suits in the county archives, numerous unredeemed obligations, and a stain on the honor of Florida and the United States. It was the invention of John G. Gamble, a Virginian...

... of gender equity in sports) seemed to flow as naturally from his experience as any of his other commitments. As a child growing up within a family that, by Thompson s slightly deliri­ ous account, openly worshiped gambling and had no regard for money, Pete was taken along on pilgrimages to Roosevelt...

.... If you had you wouldn’t be in trouble with these maniacs. You gamble because you got off the train. RAY Look, I used to go to Vegas and win, asshole. WARREN When you were married to Sharky...

... . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 607 plenty of time for the Russian campaign to be launched the following summer. Here the cards have been stacked so that Hitler is guilty of both irresolution and gambling. There can be no doubt about the frustration to which he...

... the chance for leadership of expediency, gamble, and maneuver, which really meant huge profits by cagey purchases from timid emigres, the buying up of confiscated Loyaltist properties with depreciated currency, deals in prize cargoes, and fat government contracts to furnish army supplies. Not exactly...

..., engendering more heat than light, because the gamblers, once they took the stand, showed a singular capacity for forgetting. The largest gambling rooms were at the Duval Athletic and Social Club, across Julia Street from the Duval Hotel. A token raid some weeks earlier had removed the roulette wheel...

... . Christian David . 2004 . Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History . Berkeley : University of California Press . Gamble Clive . 1999 . The Palaeolithic Societies of Europe . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Gamble Clive . 2007 . Origins and Revolutions: Human...