Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Batista was still a sergeant at 30, as the great depression settled down on Cuba. Sugar then sold for ½? a pound, banks foreclosed on planters, cane cutters roamed the island seeking a few weeks' seasonal work at 20? for a dawn-to-dark day. Those were the years of the tyrannous President Machado and his infamous gangs of gunmen hired to repress the people by terror and torture. Rebellion was in the air. Students led strikes, and the ABC revolutionary society hurled bombs at Machado's hated police. President Roosevelt sent Sumner Welles to help ease Machado...
...other waterfront state activities such as the Port of New York would be jeopardized as to jurisdiction should the Senate fail to clear the states' title as obscured by the Supreme Court decision. Senator Taft read an article by the former Dean of the Harvard Law School, Roscoe Pound, which firmly maintained the ownership of the tideland oil lands by the states. Finally one of the speakers called attention to the act by which Texas was admitted to the Union which specifically provided for ownership out to a ten-mile limit as opposed to the three-mile limit claimed...
...turn-previous conferences having starred intellectuals, youth, scientists, writers and musicians. Last week to Russia's capital came some 400 businessmen from all over the world. -"No politics" was the promise: just hard-headed talk among traders anxious to turn a quick ruble, or franc, or pound-or dollar. Even tie familiar giant portraits of Stalin were missing...
Crimson wrestling captain John Lee qualified for Olympic Tryouts in the 125 pound class in matches held Saturday at Springfield. Representatives of 14 districts battle for final Olympic spots at Ames, Iowa, this Friday...
...more than rare that the value of a piece of research is immediately appreciated and applied to practical affairs-the work of Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and his wife Eleanor Glueck, a research criminologist at the Law School, is one of these few cases...