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Word: pooled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, at Indiana's Republican convention in Indianapolis, Bill Jenner had his showdown. To head him off, Governor Gates (who could not legally succeed himself), had lined up three candidates. On the first ballot, Jenner ran far ahead. On the second, Governor Gates ordered the other three to pool their strength. Jenner wound up well behind Nominee Hobart Creighton, hefty Speaker of Indiana's House, famed among farmers as the biggest chicken & egg breeder in the U.S. (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ambition in Reverse | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Working on the theory that "it takes a snoop to catch a jiggle," SEC has 1,100 employees watching all market operations, keeping a constant check on the ticker tape, looking for any unusual buying or selling. (In Manhattan, SEC's tape watcher is an old pool operator of the '20s who knows all the tricks.) If SEC smells something suspicious, it questions the traders, the officials of the company and, if need be, follows up with subpoenas and injunctions. Stock Exchange members, who once bitterly hated the reforming SEC, have learned to live with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bull Market | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Advised to bring bathing suits, some 200 of the younger set tried out the Blockhouse pool on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and watched a diving exhibition by assistant coach Bernie Kelly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '23 Completes Three Days of Conviviality | 6/10/1948 | See Source »

Other events of the day included a reception to the Class at the State House, by Governor Robert F. Bradford '23, swimming in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool, and an informal concert by the Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain Doesn't Halt 25th Anniversary | 6/9/1948 | See Source »

...loot has included some $5 million and a Beverly Hills mansion complete with swimming pool. He has what one Hollywood agent calls "A fabulous ego. Every once in a while, someone ought to tell him that he is not, after all, Sibelius." Jimmy never worries that his inspiration will run dry: "When I was an office boy in Boston, I was a hep kid with a beat. I'm still a hep kid with a beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Stay Contemporary | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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