The nation . : I am not aware of any accountswhich show the amounts collected in r 22, I960 the different countries in which theSweep tickers are sole!. Hie Govern-ment makes no attempt to supervisethe day-to-day running activities ofthe Hospital Trust [the promotionaloutfit |. I am not aware of any fig-ures which would show details ofexpenditures by the Board in itspromotional activities, particularlyin those countries where the sale 01tickets is against the law. Inside ihc Sweeps The phenomenal extent and suc-cess of the Sweepstakes promotionaroused the curosity of CaliforniaAttorney General
The nation . : I am not aware of any accountswhich show the amounts collected in r 22, I960 the different countries in which theSweep tickers are sole!. Hie Govern-ment makes no attempt to supervisethe day-to-day running activities ofthe Hospital Trust [the promotionaloutfit |. I am not aware of any fig-ures which would show details ofexpenditures by the Board in itspromotional activities, particularlyin those countries where the sale 01tickets is against the law. Inside ihc Sweeps The phenomenal extent and suc-cess of the Sweepstakes promotionaroused the curosity of CaliforniaAttorney General Stanley Mosk, whoin late 1959 tried to determine howmuch the lottery takes out ofhis state and how it succeeds in func-tioning, illegal as it is, on such an all-encompassing scale. Examining bankdrafts sent to Ireland from just onebank, the Bank of America, he foundthat this activity steps up sharplyjust before the closing date for theIrish Sweeps. In September, 1959,for example, £26,158 sterling and. $115, were sent to Ireland. Aspot check showed that a heavy per-centage of these remittances weremade by Sweepstakes ticket sellers,and Mosk felt convinced that onan annual basis the take in Californiadollars runs into the millions. Trying to solve the modus ope-randi of the Sweeps, the AttorneyGeneral uncovered an intricate sys-tem. Ticket sellers, he found, wereengaged in socially accepted occu-pations with this as their only illegalactivity. A few of the sellers at onetime lived in Ireland, or have rela-tives there now, but most had begunas purchasers of tickets, had thendecided to become sellers and had written to Ireland to get on the mail-ing list for ticket books. The mannerin which the books are mailed to thesellers, and in which they in turnmail their ticket stubs to Irelandand get back official receipts, repre-sents an extremely intricate mail-smuggling operation, conducted withthe kind of finesse that seems to at-test to its being highly
Size: 1459px × 1712px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, bookidnation191jul, bookyear1865
