Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirteen members of the Faculty of the Law School including former Dean Roscoe Pound came out for the election of Governor Alfred M. Landon, and the entire state Republican ticket in Massachusetts it was learned yesterday...
Dean Roscoe Pound's announcement that a clear majority of the Harvard Law School faculty favored the election of Governor Landon leaves the final political status of the school very much in doubt Backed by twelve other influential professors, dean Pound also favored the election of the complete republican national and state ticket. Despite the recent poll conducted by the Phillips Brooks House Committee in which President Roosevelt obtained a majority of 200 votes, this statement issued by such persons as Pound, Beale and Williamson, may swing many votes to the G. O. P. camp, to say nothing...
...where Premier Leon Blum and Finance Minister Vincent Auriol, attacked by enemies of their devaluation move, have been trying to convince the skeptical French public that they actually have obtained from Mr. Morgenthau and from British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain a binding accord to keep the dollar, pound and franc all stabilized at their present level (TIME, Oct. 5). Cried M. Auriol: "Mr. Morgenthau has made the best answer both to the skeptics who called our original accord illusory and to men of bad intentions and bad faith who did not hesitate to sow anxiety in the public...
Soon current in Wall Street was the jest that "the new kind of gold standard" is about as much like the gold standard as companionate marriage is like holy wedlock. What had actually been done was to make the dollar, pound and franc companionate currencies pegged from day to day at a common level, with Washington, London or Paris free on 24 hours' notice to pull the pegs...
...School course four years instead of the present three. There has been a wide-spread feeling that with the recent growth of the whole body of law three years is insufficient time to cover it adequately. The addition of another year to the Law course was advocated by Roscoe Pound, who resigned recently as Faculty Dean, in one of his last reports...