FORTUNE TELLING
RESTRICTIONS IN WASHINGTON In Washington you may not tell; fortunes professionally without official sanction. Applicants for a licence must have lived in the city for two j r ears, must submit testimonials to. character from ten persons, and pay an annual fee of 250 dollars. The licensee, of wlion*; there are at present 22, are . under close observation from the police. Although complaints are few, and no licenses have been revoked for the last six years, the_system does? not seem to give perfect satisfaction, for it is about to be investi- 1 gated by the Congressional committee which controls the government of the national capital. There lias been a complaint that some of these oracles gain by trickery the confi'.ence of susceptible clients and then interest them in questionable invest ments or bleed- them by blackmail. Sooth-saying, in all its varieties, liasmany votaries in Washington, even in high political quarters. One woman fortune teller informs her close friends that she dissuaded. „acertain senator from seeking tion in 1936 because she foresaw tain defeat for him if he ran. Ancfother is so much in demand among women of social prominence that it is necessary to make an appointment a fortnight in advance for an interview, and costs 25 dollars. A crystal-gazer is said to do a flourishing business night after .night in th& cocktail bar of an hotel that houses scores of high Government officials.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 199, 14 August 1940, Page 8
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236FORTUNE TELLING Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 199, 14 August 1940, Page 8
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