Alabama Senate ends filibuster over gambling bill
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Senate has ended a long filibuster over a Macon County gambling bill. The Senate set aside the bill Tuesday afternoon after debating it off and on since late February.
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Casino gambling information:
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
- Massachusetts decriminalized bingo in 1931 in an attempt to help churches and charitable organizations raise money. Bingo was legal in 11 states by the 1950s, usually only for charity purposes.
- In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
- The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
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