Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia Record editorial department conducted an office pool in which members guessed the number of electoral votes. Closest and victor was Rewriteman Warren MacAllen who gave Landon only Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. On election night came news that the Knox New Hampshire paper had conceded the State to Roosevelt. Promptly wisecracked Rewriteman-Prognosticator MacAllen: "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont." Credit to whom credit is due. Undoubtedly the idea burst to the lips of others; but MacAllen was ahead of Farley...
...salesman of the policy, to keep Hobart alive, and his defrauders' determination to kill him off. To any person of the slightest moral stamina, it ought not to be laughable to see two low fellows trying to drown a middle-aged man, supposedly sick, in a swimming pool. Yet this scene is very funny. So are the results when the villains, now desperate, hire Genevieve (Glenda Farrell) to excite J. J.'s passion, hoping the rise in blood pressure will kill him. But Genevieve falls in love with J. J., divulges the plot and J. J., seriously...
...Valley's outdoor, glass-walled swimming pool, for which the water has to be cooled because it comes from natural hot springs, will paddle notables like Robert Pabst (beer), Julius Fleischmann (yeast), William S. Paley (Columbia Broadcasting), Ward Cheney (silk). Arrival of Hollywood bigwigs like Producer Sam Goldwyn and Actor Gary Cooper for Sun Valley's premiere, is likely to leave Ketchum profoundly bored. Because the town is too small for a cinema theatre, they are unknown. Proprietors of Ketchum's Brant Hotel and its $2-a-day tourist camp dislike their new rival, expect...
...shares of Central Bank which Transamerica had held for years, Banker Giannini now had a comfortable minority of nearly 3,000 of the 12,000 shares outstanding. Promptly Banker Giannini started to round up more, by last month driving the price to $450 bid. Thoroughly alarmed, Banker Mount & friends pooled their holdings of 6,491 shares-held control-agreeing not to sell to Mr. Giannini's Transamerica at any price. Banker Giannini offered $550 per share to the pool for enough stock to give him control, was reported to have offered as high as $1,000 to individual members...
Last week the stalemate was broken. Through an intermediary, Banker Giannini offered to 1) sell all his stock to the pool at $400 per share or 2) buy all the pool's stock at $400 per share. Weary Mr. Mount & friends decided to sell out. Preparing to retire to an office in San Francisco's Russ Building next year, there to "watch the wheels go round," Mr. Mount explained his acceptance: "I'm not going to have Giannini gunning for me for the rest of my life." Said his wife: "I wonder what...