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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France-German Treaty. The commercial accord signed recently with Germany (TIME, Aug. 29) was an- other fly in U. S. Parisians' ointment. In it Germany was accorded most-favored national treatment in regard to all but specified products, which means that she enjoys the minimum tariff rates accorded to countries having this class of treaty. All countries outside this category must pay duty in conformity with the new law. U. S. businessmen, petulant, were in-clined to see deliberate discrimination in the new tariff against them in favor of the Reich...
Other Business. Expression of sympathy to Rumania over the death of King Ferdinand (TIME, Aug. 1); consideration of press expert's report; review of Danzig fiscal program (Danzig is a Free City under the protection of the League...
...Poincare, who is also Minister of Finance and cousin of the famed mathematician, Jules Henri Poincare, took over the control of French finances last year (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). At that time, with the franc daily plunging to new depths, the amount the state owed the Bank of France stood at 38,350,000,000 francs - 150,000,000 francs under the newly constituted limit, previous Finance Ministers having raised the loan limit to keep pace with the printing presses...
...month ago John Early, leper, escaped from the Government lep-rosaria at Carville, La. When he reached his home in the North Carolina mountains, his mother, gay at her son's return, refused to tell Federal officers his whereabouts (TIME, Aug. 22). Matt Early, the leper's brother, found a hiding-place in the hills; there, for over three weeks John Early remained, his hideous, white, terrified face peering through the brambles for men he knew would come. In his hands he held a rifle...
...retiring president had been a perfunctory one. His inaugural pronouncement a year ago, like his retiring one now, had alluded vaguely to "the value of scientific research in relation to imperial development"-glossing over, for the rest, a royal ignorance of science itself with a few royal witticisms (TIME, Aug. 16, 1926). Now a real scientist was president again. The Association might get on with its business. The members settled back to attend President Sir Arthur Keith, who made every effort to transport his audience from the perfunctory to the profound...