Word: pound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surprisingly after this clash M. Bonnet and Le Gouverneur managed to reach agreement. Fiscal experts of the U. S., British and French delegations paved the way to peace among their chiefs by deciding that, in their opinion, it should be possible promptly to peg the dollar, the pound, the franc. Since this was the main thing France wanted, M. Bonnet was soon exclaiming "We love Le Gouverneur...
...asked by a correspondent whether the dollar was being pegged at $4 to the pound, replied "That guess would shoot very close to the mark...
...With the pound at this time worth $4.10 (after rising in the past few days from $4.01) Governor Harrison reputedly broached to Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England a pegging together of dollar & pound at $4.30. This of course was sheer horse trading, the British having mentioned $3.50 as their figure. During the next few days Governor Harrison sat tight, watched mysterious forces, about which Britons thought he knew a great deal, depress the dollar so violently on the day the Conference opened that the pound was forced...
...York's Governor Lehman with four honorary degrees, was kudos champion of 1933. President Roosevelt, Secretary of the Interior Ickes, Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, Roscoe Pound, Sir Josiah Stamp and Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis of Aluminum Co. of America took their second degrees of the year last week. Republicans of note to get kudos were Ogden Livingston Mills and Arthur Atwood Ballantine who is still Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard Law School L.H.D...