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Boston is the dog-racing capital of the country and Massachusetts politics are tainted by the racing interests, an article in the this week's Saturday Evening Post claims.
In "Massachusetts Goes to the Dogs," the author states that attempts to reform a situation that allows the track operators a profit of 15 per cent on an annual betting business of $20,000,000 have so far been ineffectual. He cites the effort by Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14 to increase the percentage taken by the state, which was beaten at the last legislative session.
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