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When the grumbling and spatting climaxed, who should be appointed Minister of Commerce but that suave barrister M. Maurice Bokanowski. He knows the nimbleness of U. S. telephone girls from personal experience. He gets things done in Herbert Hoover fashion (TIME, March 19). Furthermore funds wherewith to buy new telephone equipment were now becoming available through the sound but dazzling financial wizardry of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, the savior of the franc (TIME...
Straightway the Minister of Commerce, suave attorney Maurice Bokanowski, rose to defend the bill. He did not deny that the Cabinet had received protests and intimations from Standard Oil of New Jersey, Royal Dutch Shell and Anglo-Persian Oil. Rising superior to this fact, he cried: "The State does not know the importers! The State is merely anxious to provision the Nation with oil to the best advantage...
Minister of Commerce Bokanowski is still remembered in Washington, D. C., as perhaps the most broadminded and conciliatory member of the French debt commission which came abortively to the U. S., chairmanned by brilliant but brittle-tempered Joseph Caillaux (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925, et seq.). In France Barrister Bokanowski is not only potent in the councils of financiers but is rated as an authentic patron of the bold, new movement in French art and decoration. Following his tilt in the Chamber over oil, last week (see col. 1), he took unto himself a pen and signed a new trade treaty...
Farewell. Minister of Commerce Maurice Bokanowski, just back from the U. S., in a speech at the farewell lunch of the American Club, translated a French folksong...
...feel," said M. Bokanowski, "that somehow the story of this song is the story of the people of France and America. They met only after one century and a half...