Word: pound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lords - ¶Reversed a previous chancery Court decision and held that British holders of "gold clause" bonds of the Societe Intercommunale Beige d'Electricite are entitled to demand and receive interest and capital payments in gold at the par value of the pound.* "The original intention of the contract was to prevent the loss from falling upon the bondholder should sterling become depreciated," argued counsel for the bondholders, and this view the Lords upheld. Because the U. S. Supreme Court gives great weight to pertinent decisions at the fountainhead of Anglo-Saxon law, holders of U. S. gold clause...
Extracts from petitions to the Council for reimbursement show that one William Baker, doorkeeper lost "1 new beaver Hatt", valued at 1 pound 16 shillings; "1 new Wigg," 2 pounds 8 shillings; and one pair of black shoe buckles. Stephen Hall, a student numbered among his losses a bed and bedding, food, kitchen utensils, 2 cod lines, and a quart of rum which he valued at 1 shilling sixpence. Other itemized lists show that the students kept house for themselves to a large degree...
...DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS-Ezra Pound-Farrar & Rinehart...
...history of Ulysses is, in part, the history of literary censorship in the U. S. Irishman James Joyce started writing his colossal story of one Dublin day in France in 1914. In 1918 Ezra Pound sent part of it to Margaret Anderson who published it in her Little Review. The U. S. Post Office Department seized and burned all copies sent through the mails. Vice Suppressor John S. Sumner* had Margaret Anderson indicted for publishing indecent matter, caused her and her Co-Editor Jane Heap to be fined $50. Thirty thousand copies of Ulysses have been sold in France, mostly...
...pound: Lamb (B) defeated Goldsmith (T). 125-pound: Curtin (B) defeated Bradford (T). 135-pound: Ward (B) defeated Wetherwill (T). 145-pound: Carey (T) knocked out Cone (B). 155-pound; McGoodwin defeated Gaughan. 165-pound: Lawrence defeated Lefthes. 175-pound: Smith defeated Collins. Heavyweight; Simmons knocked out Jewett...