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...Richmond P. Bond Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The Lottery A Note for the Year 1710 Richmond P. Bond By the winter of 1709-10 the English government was again fac­ ing the financial realities of the long French war, just as it had been doing for some years. Seeking relief...

...William Christie MacLeod Copyright © 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 THE TRUTH ABOUT LOTTERIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY* WILLIAM CHRISTIE MacLEOD THERE is today in some of our United States a powerful movement directed toward the setting up anew of lot­ teries operated by cities and states...

... team wins an important match. Two or three matches a week overload or short-circuit the feverpitch emotion on which Brazilian soccer thrives.7 An even more transparent effort to exploit/tuebo/i popularity has been the national loteria esportiva or sports lottery introduced in 1970. Govern­ ments...

... to the rigor of a structural and empirical arbitrariness comparable to the lottery in Babylon described by J. L. Borges ( 1974 : 456). In short, it is the regularization of the affliction, outrage, and damage caused by the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA, 1974–1977) and the National Intelligence Center...

... in a lottery causes her to become miserly in her worship of it and to desire to keep it intact away from McTeague, who would spend it; the miserliness becomes a monomania as economic conditions get worse and the necessity for using the gold gets more acute. This monomaniacal worship of gold, which...

... and funds whose rise and fall appear to be governed purely by chance. It also expresses itself in a fascination with ‘‘futures’’ and with their downmarket counterpart, the lottery; banal, if symbolically saturated fantasies these of abundance without effort, of beating capitalism on its own terms...

..., steamboating on the Mississippi, railroads, real-estate speculations, the Knights of the White Camellia, the Mafia, the painful death of the Louisiana Lottery, Sitting Bull, Gilbert and Sullivan, and a thousand other things from the Johnstown Flood to bicycle riding. Interspersed through this diverting melange...

... will find gems of interest and sobering fact. The following examples, picked at random, illustrate the point. Holworthy Hall, the first modern dormitory at Harvard, was built in 1812 from proceeds of a public lottery authorized by the state. The original construction cost was $25,000; the operating cost...

... of interest and sobering fact. The following examples, picked at random, illustrate the point. Holworthy Hall, the first modern dormitory at Harvard, was built in 1812 from proceeds of a public lottery authorized by the state. The original construction cost was $25,000; the operating cost in 194748...

... people playing cricket, another 50,000 spectators at cricket, 100,000 surfing, 50,000 at the horse races, and countless thousands playing tennis, camping, hiking, sailing, and fishing. Other signs of the Australian love for fun and games are that a lottery of a hundred thousand tickets is drawn daily...

... of ruining families and [the] cause of many disorders. 24 Parisian gambling was, perhaps, the most stubborn sin Louis XIV attacked. Officially the only form of gambling permitted in Paris was the lottery which had been introduced to the city during the reign of Francois I and had proved an excellent means...

... of mind most of the time, it was no fault of their logical and devoted elders. The prevailing theological view that an eternity of cumulative cremation could be escaped only by the mysterious lottery of predestination, was earnestly ex­ plained as soon as the infant could grasp the charming idea. Cotton...

... lotteries, lapsed copyright funds, or privately financed endowment based on tax-exemptions. Some politicians encourage private support. Others talk about an artistic Iaissez faire that never was. The confusion about priorities and the weakness of artists pressure groups have made govern­ ment arts...

... as a charming gentleman without force or drive. Truman, the small­ bore politician, became a decisive president. Walter Bagehot observed with respect to the American pres­ idency that occasional success in a lottery was no argument for lot­ teries. But under the parliamentary system, is not a beginning prime...

... are wage workers who earn their pay through extremely short-term jobs that they get through lotteries at urban worker centers or by ’agging down employers who cruise by informal, street-corner pickup spots. Yet day laborers also number among the unemployed because they lack stable jobs governed...

... to yellow fever, artifical gas, theaters, dinners, duels, earthquakes, strikes, slavery, steamboating on the Mississippi, railroads, real-estate speculations, the Knights of the White Camellia, the Mafia, the painful death of the Louisiana Lottery, Sitting Bull, Gilbert and Sullivan, and a thousand other...

... and in promoting two lotteries to raise the necessary funds forecast the public influence he would exercise in later years. Franklin s greatest achievement reported in this volume was in his electrical experiments. To his friend Peter Collinson in London he wrote on March 28, 1747, that nothing had ever before so...

... 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...

... with the results achieved by the French, Germans, Russians, and Tibetans with their respective methods of choosing a ruler.1 Nevertheless, from Walter Bagehot, who claimed in connec­ tion with Lincoln s nomination that success in lottery is no argu­ ment for lotteries, 2 to Arthur Miller, who described the last...

... Council,16 but when Mr. Clapp took charge in 1822 a debt of $45,000 had been accumulated, because New Orleans folk, while willing to attend church, were too indifferent to contribute.17 Hence the trustees ap­ plied to the state legislature for permission to use the lottery, and the scheme was sold...