Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President to talk War Debts with Britain's emissary. Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. Undersecretary Acheson and Governor Black of the Federal Reserve Board talked for two hours with Sir Frederick. Result: rumors of a monetary truce between Great Britain and the U. S. whereby dollar and pound would be "loosely" pegged while the U. S. pursued its gold-buying program. As for War debts, observers predicted that Sir Frederick would soon go home without anything having been settled except another "token payment" by Britain in December, signifying that her debt ($4,500,000,000) still stands and will...
...Federal agency to dump surpluses abroad. That was his debut as an agrarian agitator. In 1926 Mr.. Peek became chairman of the Committee of 22 of the North Central States Agricultural Conference. As a mem ber of this body he buttonholed Congressmen for two years, trying to pound home his ideas on farm relief. Early on the Roosevelt bandwagon, he now works just as hard to put into effect the Roosevelt domestic allotment as he did for his own equalization fee. and doubtless gets wry satisfaction when delegations of lobbyists wait on him. He is now inside the glass...
America can control the world gold price and force the British pound to a different level and even the franc from its moorings. But when this has been achieved, the real point at issue will be whether American commodity prices have been materially improved. Those that are international, like wheat and cotton, will go up as does gold. Other products will depend in the future, as in the past, on the demand for them. And demand depends on confidence and spending power, both of which have not yet come with full force in the domestic program of the administration
...Buenos Aires books were opened last week for subscriptions to this Roca-Runciman loan. Argentina waited nervously to see how British firms would take the bait. Would they subscribe, or would they prefer to bootleg their money out of the country a few pounds at a time by selling pesos at special rates to tourists and others with dollar bills or pound notes? With relief Finance Minister Federico Pinedo soon announced...
...drake, a rook, a Blue Angora cat, and eventually two very large sows. In spite of his friendship with John Galsworthy and his admiration for George Moore, England finally became too depressing; he expatriated himself to Paris. There, with Ernest Hemingway as his sanest subeditor, the encouragement of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, and with the backing of the late U. S. backer, John Quinn. he started the transatlantic review. A helpful man, he was much put upon by the polyglot bohemians. He once made an appointment at the British Embassy for Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhofen; she showed...