publisher – Gambling-History.com https://gambling-history.com History of Gambling in the U.S. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:10:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gambling-history.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-Kings-Castle-Chip-32x32.png publisher – Gambling-History.com https://gambling-history.com 32 32 Quick Fact – Publisher Unsuitable https://gambling-history.com/quick-fact-publisher-unsuitable/ https://gambling-history.com/quick-fact-publisher-unsuitable/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:52:39 +0000 https://gambling-history.com/?p=734 1967

New York publisher, Lyle Stuart, applied to the Nevada Gaming Commission for a gambling license to purchase 1 percent of the Aladdin Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip for $25,000 ($178,000 today).

Regulators, though, denied him one due to his “unsuitable background” because a subsidiary of his company sold books that contained material they believed to be pornographic.

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