Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clarence A. Barnes, a Republican candidate for Attorney-General of Massachusetts, annoyed the Happy Warrior by picking up some New York State talk about a gambling pool on major league baseball games which operated "in the shadow of the Capitol" at Albany. Nominee Smith had declared himself technically impotent to act in this matter (there undeniably was a gambling pool) when Col. Roosevelt the Younger stumped around making the same charge...
Nominee Smith invited Mr. Barnes to Albany to point out physically and prove legally the existence of the devilish pool. Mr. Barnes wrote back and set a date, Sept, 19. The Nominee replied again and sarcastically regretted that he would be out of Albany then, but recommended Mr. Barnes to the Albany County District Attorney. Again, somehow, this was inconclusive, savoring of defense...
...interests of this large group who use the Union only occasionally are the interests of that increasing number of men who use the Union's restaurant. These men, numbering over five hundred, seek a club life which the Governing Board attempts to satisfy. Toward this end a pool and billiard room is maintained which is equalled by none in the Square. Under the direction of a professional billiardist excellent instruction free of charge is given. The charge for playing is lower than elsewhere in the Square...
...There is a gentleman," observed the Wall Street Journal, cautiously, last week, "who heads a large salt company who also has salty tastes. On his estate in the outskirts of a Pennsylvania city he has built a large swimming pool, containing salt water. Every two weeks the water is renewed and two tons of salt are used to make the solution sufficiently saline. In the salt manufacturer's house there is a salt water system, so that the benefits of synthetic ocean bathing may be enjoyed without leaving the privacy of one's bathroom...
Rubber Cq. Tire makers, linked in the Rubber Pool, have seen their inventories of crude rubber, bought at around 40? a pound, fall to less than 20?. The same tiremakers, linked in the new Rubber Institute, are fighting fierce competition from mileage-guaranteeing mail order houses (see LETTERS...