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...figure out of the past with his white moustache, his long white hair, and his blue suit and vest, Pound is as industri ous today as ever. His five-volume work on jurisprudence came out in June. Besides his articles and speeches, he keeps up a voluminous correspondence in many languages (he has a writing acquaintance with French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese), and he counsels friends and students who come...
...involved in its success in America, General Lafayette never realized that the achievement of liberty on the new continent owed as much to geography and British Blimpishness as to George Washington. His later attempts to translate American liberty into reality back home in France involved him in one glori ous absurdity after another. Before the French Revolution, he was a popular idol, and after it he might even have become head of state. Instead, his pride in his ideas and inability to compromise lodged him in prison, cost him his fortune in millions and, finally, made him a sort...
Unemployment which stood at a danger ous high of 9.3 percent of the labor force in June, 1949 in being cut down at the rate of 110,000 persons per month...
...most logical of nations suddenly found itself face to face with the most fundamental of issues in Europe's tortu ous revival: are national Communist Par ties truly national, or are they Russian pawns in world power politics? If they were Russian pawns, how could the French Communist Party be fitted into the pattern of French democracy...
...immensely enjoyed taking over bits & pieces of broken-down railroads in the Deep South, linking them together, and making them work for a profit. The end product of this patient toil is the prosper ous 1,970-mile Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Rail-foad Co., that links Mobile and New Orleans with East St. Louis...