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In a skit titled "A Sweepstakes Ticket" in the film Ziegfeld Follies (1945), an indigent wife (Fanny Brice) learns via cablegram that she is the winner of the Irish Sweepstakes – only then to discover that her husband (Hume Cronyn) has given the ticket to the landlord (William Frawley) as a substitute for the $3 he was short on rent.
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Tickets being chosen in the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake, 1946. In the United States, a sweepstake is a type of contest where a prize or prizes may be awarded to a winner or winners. [1] Sweepstakes began as a form of lottery that were tied to products sold. [2] In response, the FCC and FTC refined U.S. broadcasting laws (creating the anti ...
The operators of the Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake, which had run since 1930, bid unsuccessfully in a public tender process for the licence to operate the lottery; they then placed the Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake into voluntary liquidation in March 1987 after deciding it could not compete with the National Lottery. [6] [7] [8]
Publishers Clearing House agreed to pay $3.5 million, not to a lucky prize winner, but to a collection of states that accused the marketing company of once again misleading consumers. A decade ...
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Lottery! is an American anthologic drama that premiered on ABC on September 9, 1983. [1] The series aired for one season of 17 episodes and starred Ben Murphy as Patrick Sean Flaherty, and Marshall Colt as Eric Rush. Lottery! centered on ordinary people who have won the lottery—all of a sudden becoming millionaires—and how it changes their ...
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