Word: auriolism
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...Soak the Rich!" Although Communist supporters of the Blum Cabinet demanded an immediate soak-the-rich confiscation of part of all great French fortunes last week, Socialist Finance Minister Vincent Auriol backed water so much from this position that his motto might have been, ''Don't Soak the Rich...
...half-radical, half-timid measures caused Senator Joseph Caillaux to charge the Cabinet in open debate with "Lilliputian Rooseveltism." For example, M. Auriol announced an enormous issue of "Baby Bonds," apparently to be bought by Socialists and Communists of modest means to help the Cabinet make a stand against the "Financial Oligarchy...
Until his "Baby Bonds" could be sold, M. Auriol turned for temporary succor to the Financial Oligarchy, obtained from the Regents of the Bank of France an overdraft of $10,000,000 on which to keep his Treasury going for the moment. Socialist Auriol said he will not take the franc off the gold standard, will not nationalize but only "reform" the Bank of France and will not fail to balance the Budget...
...French "hoarders," somehow or other the Blum Cabinet can get these billions back into circulation "partly by threats" and thus avoid the necessity for devaluation-all this sounding last week to most of the world's fiscal experts like gibberish clear to no one except M. Vincent Auriol...
...Distaff Side (by John Van Druten; Dwight Deere Wyman and Auriol Lee, producers). This quiet study of womanly nobility serves chiefly to break the monotony of dirty but dull plays which all but engulfed the Broadway stage last month. In it Sybil Thorndyke, Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, returns for the first time in 24 years...