The answer to question 2 is that the Bank of France is not now and never has been known as the National Bank of France. I have this from my wife, who has just spent 3 months researching in their archives, so I think it must be right. Richard Edwards >From: Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine > <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: My student's info request >Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:26:14 -0400 > >Hello, fellow Pounders: > >My grad student Sarah Holmes, who is finishing up the editing >of the 1930s EP/William Borah correspondence (forthcoming with U. Ill. >Press), has some questions she hopes you'll help her answer. >She is currently off-list. However, she would appreciate your >replying to her email address: [log in to unmask] > >Her questions follow: >==Dan Pearlman >---------------------------------------------------- > >Hello list. I am doing some research and was wondering if anyone could >offer >some answers to these questions: > >1) In Pound's personal letters, why does he group Harding, Hoover, and >Mellon >as a "universal stink." Is it because he blames them for the Depression? If >so, why? > >2) What did Pound have against the Bank of France? (also, is it best to >refer >to it that way, or should one say National Bank of France?) > >3) Why did Pound dislike Woodrow Wilson? > >4) Did H. L. Mencken ever encourage Pound to start a newspaper? If not >Mencken, was there another journalist who suggested Pound start one? > >5) What does PARTAGGIO mean? I think this word has something to do with >elections, but I'm not sure. > >6) Who was Capt. Goldoni? It should be an Italian captain who was active >during the Italian/ Abyssinian crisis, but I am not sure. > > >ANY help would be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks, >Sarah Holmes >University of Rhode Island >-------------------------------------------------------- > > > > >HOME: >Dan Pearlman >102 Blackstone Blvd. #5 >Providence, RI 02906 >Tel.: 401 453-3027 >email: [log in to unmask] >Fax: (253) 681-8518 >http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/ > >OFFICE >Department of English >University of Rhode Island >Kingston, RI 02881 >Tel.: 401 874-4659 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com