Word: pound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roscoe Pound '90, former Dean of the Law School, has been appointed chairman of the American Bar Association's committee on administrative law by Arthur T. Vanderbilt, it was reported yesterday...
...giving his course in Jurisprudence at the Law School, Roscoe Pound resigned as Dean of the Law School in the fall of 1935. Last fall he left on a round the world cruise, returning this spring. In March of this year it was learned that Pound had been named as the first "University professor" of the Lamont endowment...
...authority on administrative law, Pound was one of the severest critics of President Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court. He has consistently expressed resentment of what he terms the attempts of the Administration's attack on laws...
Hemingway's chief mentors of the Pans period were Ezra Pound, erudite, eccentic poet and expatriate, who helped get Hemingway's first books published; Gertrude Stein, who, besides godmothering Hemingway's first child, John Hadley, had a lasting influence both on Hemingway's style and point of view. The friendships were not so lasting. "Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it," summed up Hemingway in his early career. "Gertrude was always right." The Stein-Hemingway feud has been...
...thing in particular still threatened commodity prices, however, a drop in pound sterling, dominant currency of world commodities. Last week there was little indication that the pound would not remain reasonably stable, but there was fear that the franc, down last week to a new eleven-year low, might eventually topple the pound (see p. 24). In the long view, sinking foreign currencies may be inflationary, may lead to another cut in the dollar. But immediate effects, as Herbert Hoover liked to point out after Britain left gold in 1931, are sometimes unpleasantly deflationary...