Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Field Meet: The twelve-pound shot-put was won by R. B. Batchelder, who with a handicap of 6 feet, made 46 ft., 1-2 inch...
Intimating that the German government is attempting to swing Harvard around behind Hitler, Charles A. Beard, noted American historian, quotes, in the current issue of the New Republic, extracts from newspaper accounts of the visit to Germany of Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School. The article contains statements by Dean Pound to the press about conditions of "domestic peace" in the Reich, and mentions the honorary degree which the University of Berlin awarded him soon afterward...
...Germany Dean Pound discussed the current situation as well as the new movement in German law with German teachers of the University of Munich. In France he told the Paris Herald that "all those countries--Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy and the rest--are tired of internal bickering and will back up a man who can bring them freedom from agitating 'movements...
...strong evidence of the same distaste for political things in France, and I would not be surprised to see the French unite in supporting a man who could spare them the turbulence of politics," said Mr. Pound. "I doubt if this could occur in America or England, because these two countries do not take their politics as seriously as the others...
...last week's complications could be perceived without the use of a slide rule. The pound suddenly slumped 5¢ to $4.91½?lowest level since last February. Up went the London gold price to a historical high of 142 shillings 4 pence (about $34.95) Down went, the Scandinavian and other currencies which are linked to sterling through the economics of world trade. Down went the yen, so that Japanese exporters would not lose the markets they have lately gained. And when the international debate about the future of sterling grew raucous, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain either lied...