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Engaged. David Rockefeller, 25, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and secretary to New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia; and Margaret McGrath of Mount Kisco...
...heads together and figured out a scheme. They would run a lottery on an English horse race, ask the Irish Free State to sanction it, give a fat chunk of the proceeds to impoverished Irish hospitals. R. J. Duggan, the bookmaker, had experience: he had run sweepstakes before. Joseph McGrath, the politician, had a flock of friends: he had been Minister of Labor under President Griffith. With the Bail's consent, Duggan & McGrath formed the Irish Hospitals' Trust...
...their first lottery-on the 1930 Manchester Handicap-Duggan & McGrath, to their surprise and delight, collected ?658,358 ($3,300,000). In their second sowing, on the 1931 Grand National, they reaped...
...notices to its employes, announced voluntary liquidation. Reason: the war had thrown a monkey wrench into its sensitive international sales organization and the take is too small. For last fortnight's Sweeps on the Grand National, only ?224,500 was collected. In Dublin, rumor had it that Promoter McGrath (Duggan is dead) will soon organize a new company-to establish an Irish Monte Carlo, known as Killarney...
Warren Winslow put the Hoddermen back in the game, combining with Gordy McGrath and Skip Ervin at 16:40 to push the puck past Pentland in the Toronto nets. After that, however, the Crimson stickmen were simply no match for the lightning-fast Blues and struggled desperately to give harassed goalie Vint Freedley what little protection they could...