Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something happened to him. A man came, gave him $800, got him to put his thumb print on a paper granting the right to drill for oil on his farm for which he was to receive a royalty of one-eighth of all oil produced. The great Gushing Oil Pool had been discovered adjoining his land...
Newsmen in flannels and white linen danced, sipped punch, ate ice cream in the state dining room, showed their wives and friends through the ground floor rooms, down to the swimming pool and out on the terrace. Instead of retiring early as he does at state affairs, the President stayed up until 11:30 and Mrs. Roosevelt did not leave until 1:00. ¶ Congress sent President Roosevelt a bill to equalize nationalization rights for men and women and grant U. S. citizenship to children born abroad of U. S. mothers. The State Department reported to the White House that...
...week. The rain annoyed a troupe of women swimmers and divers hired for entertainment more than it did the 300 members who journeyed to the Sleepy Hollow Country Club near Scarborough, N. Y. For a long time no one noticed that Bondman Wilfred T. Pratt had fallen into the pool during an exciting barrel race. On the "Sleepy Hollow Stock Exchange" trading in lottery tickets for automobiles and cases of whiskey was active with no restrictions on short-selling or sharp practice. A winner of a case of bourbon was Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank. In the golf...
Coaches Bob Muir and Hall Ulen staged a swimming meet on Saturday for the sons of members of the faculty. Everything went off very nicely and there were cross pool races, 25-yard dashes, diving contests, and all the other events that go to make up a regulation meet...
...Rafael, Calif., locked in a telephone booth while robbers looted his poolroom, Ed Baier could not lift an arm to lift the receiver to call police. Packed in the booth with him were eight pool patrons...