Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Charles N. Pollak, II, of Westmoor Farm, did not, as was reported in last week's issue of the Mirror, fall into the Harvard swimming pool and spoil a record attempt by Harvard's swimming team. It has been revealed that at the time of the alleged incident Pollak was in New York City for the week...
Pollak, in a letter to the Mirror, declares that he was particularly anxious to correct that part of the fake story which said "he had to be fished out of the pool," since he learned to swim at Nantucket,"... and I hate to think of losing this skill, even in a cooked-up news item...
...most powerful Yale swimming team of all time will meet Crimson Captain Eric Cutler and his mates in New Haven's Payne Whitney Exhibition Pool at 8:15 o'clock this evening...
Even though the Crimson has but one tie to mar its second's record, the Yale performances have demonstrated that there should be an emphatic Blue predominance this evening. The chief Eli threats are Danny Dannenbaum, a Varsity calibre backstroker, Jack Pulleyn, holder of the Princeton pool 50 yard record, and Frank Lilley, sprinter. With their teammates, these men have won 11 straight meets...
...many of its powers, to a wave of front-page indignation engineered by Ferdinand Pecora, who took over the Senate Banking & Currency investigation of 1932-33. When he showed how Charlie Mitchell rigged the market in Anaconda; how Rudolph Spreckels made over$14,000,000 in the Kolster Radio pool while suckers lost their shirts; how Dick Whitney, pegging a German bond issue, waited till the Morgans were out before he "pulled the plug"; how the Stock Exchange of 1929 really worked-the New Deal was able to write its own ticket for Federal regulation of security issues and trading...