Word: hounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite soft shushing, the first of the R's, so characteristic of the Roosevelt Regime: Recrimination, Resignation and Reorganization, are registering in the Securities Commission. The scavenger instincts of Protector of the Public Pecora scenting a tainted situation in the matter of B.M.T. bonds, have caused that noted headline hound to break forth into full cry, to the consternation of the youthful counsel for the Commission, who, it is said, Burns Pecora up. Any inquisition at this stage will prove a killing frost to the budding confidence of security holders...
...rate as this news hound journeyed past Gales Ferry where the Yale football team had taken over the crow headquarters for their own use, noted more activity than was usual in New England on the Lord's Day. Perhaps he heard the bark of signals; perhaps the thud of boot on taut pigskin; perhaps the creaking of the tackling dummy. In any event his curiosity was aroused and he started to investigate...
...Britain in June 1932. His wealth lost, deprived of power but not yet humiliated, he first settled down in Paris on an $18,000-per-year pension granted him by his old companies. But humiliation followed. In Chicago a grand jury indicted him for embezzlement. Newshawks began to hound him in the streets. Finally, just before his arrest could be requested, he stole away in the night. His son Samuel Jr. went with him as far as Milan whence the old man fled alone to Athens. Instead of bravely facing the music, he had elected to become a hounded...
...bond slave, chattel, fawning hound...
...employ of the Bank of France may point out that he waited until he had a poem (so-called) on every newsstand round about (note: The Advocate came out day before yesterday) before bursting into print in any given locality. But any future charge that he is a publicity-hound will be false. IT CERTAINLY WILL. Ezra Pound will LIVE. Generations after people have given up trying to understand his poetry he will still be remembered and honored. And those few who today see how fitted Mr. Pound is to SETTLE the troubles of the planet--how moved with emotion...