Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chase Bank's list of syndicate loans were found the names of Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob. Not troubling to learn more, the Press whooped that Al Smith had been caught dabbling his fingers in a stock-market pool. That night Mr. Raskob hopped down to Washington as a voluntary witness to set the Senators aright...
...live in them is to live as in a club--a floor below are ping-pong tables, library, and for the Merrimaniacs a History Reading Room. Two floors below are dining room, radio, fireplace, magazines, newspapers, piano, and demi-tasses. Three floors down are barber shop and pool room. (To be sure, these facilities are open to all Freshmen, but we alone are constantly within banister distance of them. Who but us can sleep till 8.28 A.M. and still reach our orange-juice before the grim-faced guardian of the portal bars the way with her flimsy-looking but entirely...
...Pools. Most reddening to Mr. Wiggin's face were Mr. Pecora's inquiries about pools in Chase's stock. Half a dozen pools, operated by a subsidiary of Chase Securities Corp. and various brokers in the years from 1927 to 1930, had traded in hundreds of thousands of shares of Chase Bank stock. During one pool the shares rose from $483 to $800. "Was that not a scheme for 'churning the market?' " demanded Mr. Pecora. Mr. Wiggin: I think the market was a God-given market. Senator Couzens: That is a new one. Senator Adams...
...DRAGON MURDER CASE-S. S. Van Dine-Scribner ($2). Philo Vance is this time erudite on tropical fish, and very up-to-date mechanically on the dragon footprints littering the bottom of the swimming pool...
Representative headlines are "Big-Shot Life Not All Gravy; 'Campus Heat' Gets Too Hot"; "What About Repeal, Will Administration Lead With Its Chin?"; and "Local Sports Critics a Couple of Monday Pool-Room Coaches...