Word: beghin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...population, Paris tries to support 120 newspapers to New York City's 24. Most of the Parisian papers are party organs, constantly in hot financial water. None is making money on its journalistic merits alone. The thriving Paris Soir is owned by Billionaire Henri Beghin, French beet sugar and paper tycoon, and by Textile Tycoon Jean Prouvost. The dull Temps is the handmaiden of the heavy industries. Still another few, like Communist Humanite have their worrying done for them in foreign capitals...
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