Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special editors in charge of modernizing the definitions in various departments, Harvard has contributed thirteen: Plant Anatomy and Histology,--Ralph H. Wetmore, Ph.D. '24, Associate Professor of Botany, and Director of the Botanical Laboratories; Law,--Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Faculty of Law; Philosophy, Logic, and Ethics,--Clarence I. Lewis '06, Professor of Philosophy; Physiology,--William J. Crozier, Ph.D. '15, Professor of General Physiology, and Director of the Laboratory of General Physiology, and Edward S. Castle '25, Assistant Professor of General Physiology; Synonyms,--John Livingston Lowes, Ph.D. '05, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, with the advice and assistance...
...Shall they challenge President Roosevelt to end monetary shilly-shallying by entering a dollar-pound-franc stabilization pact...
...France may be compared to three storekeepers, two of whom are selling at cut rates. Neither President Roosevelt nor Chancellor Neville Chamberlain of His Majesty's Exchequer has ever opposed the ending of cut-rate monetary competition, ultimately. The only trouble is that Premier Flandin seeks dollar-pound-franc stabilization now. He is the storekeeper who has not cut prices. While the other two deplore the unquestionably bad effects of present world money chaos, each hopes to gain brief advantage by prolonging it just a bit more. Last week only highest powered optimists hoped that a money stabilizing pact...
...advertising policy by which big companies could purchase 20 pages in the back of the magazine for $10,000, using eight pages to print stories about themselves and the other twelve for display advertising. Last month the first story to appear was an account of General Motors by Arthur Pound, whose chief point apparently was that General Motors is in business to stay. Last week President Alfred Sloan Jr. confirmed the fact by announcing earnings of $94,769,000 for 1934 as against $83,213,000 for 1933. World sales by the parent company and subsidiaries were...
Even the nimble-witted money changers admitted that it was the worst day since the dollar was devalued a year ago. A frenzied scramble sent the dollar soaring in terms of francs, guilders, sterling, yen, and at one time it sold nearly 3? above the gold franc parity. The pound sank to $4.83½, lowest price since November 1933. Bids for gold bloc currencies practically vanished. Wild flew reports that trade contracts were being canceled right & left, and for several hours the whole foreign exchange market was completely demoralized...