Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven Seniors, led by Captain Marshall A. Lamb '34, of the 125-pound class, again turned out for borths on the team: Thomas J. Curtin, 115 pounds; Arthur B. Sullivan, 135 pounds; Abraham Cone, 145 pounds; Philip W. A. Hines, 155 pounds; Richard Lawrence, 165 pounds; and Bradford Simmons, of the heavyweight class...
...salaries were running in arrears. For charities and schools there was a serious lack of ready cash. The Union voted to solve its financial problem by levying a tax on that cornerstone of orthodox Jewish life, the kosher slaughterhouse. It figured that if it could collect ½? on every pound of kosher meat sold. it could raise $1,000,000 or more in one year...
...Sprague's letter of resignation has become by now a very famous document, quoted and everywhere made the text for sermons on delicacy and the higher ethic. Its practical results were very dramatically shown in the dollar market--within fifteen minutes after it had reached the tickers the pound premium had gone from six to thirteen cents. And this added a touch of bitterness to the complaints of those who felt that Dr. Sprague should have spoken of his late employers with more becoming reverence, that in a time when all the future of the administration depended upon popular confidence...
Under such circumstances many American owners of money in Europe would want to bring their funds back to the United States and would sell their francs or pounds to get dollars. The result would be a jump in the price of the dollar and a decline in the pound and the franc. This change might be happening at the very moment the funds of some luckless individuals were being sent out of the country. Indeed, the export of capital in times like these is a form of speculation, which has in it all the dangers that any speculation of chance...
...heels in the British Embassy, had to show for his visit. Then President Roosevelt instituted his new monetary program and it became clear that it would be futile to discuss debt settlement until it could be determined where the dollar would finally come to roost in relation to the pound. That was the subject of the second, last and longest (one hour) conference which the President had with Sir Frederick and Sir Ronald...