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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking like a cross between Santa Claus and Socrates, M. Chéron is one of the few people in the world who was a friend of a legitimate Saint. Years ago in his native Normandy he used to play the guitar while Thérèse Martin, the "Little Flower" of Lisieux, sang hymns. This intrepid Norman was Minister of Finance immediately after Premier Poincaré's famed stabilization of the franc, served in three cabinets and retired in 1930, leaving a treasury surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. Because Papa Chéron was never...
...closely connected with the case attempted to commit suicide. Scrabbling through the Stavisky correspondence, investigators discovered a letter to Stavisky with the salutation "Cher Monsieur et Bon Ami-", supposed to have been written by Henri Hurlaux, assistant prosecuting attorney of the Court of Appeal. White-chinned old Henri Chéron, Minister of Justice, promptly removed good Friend Hurlaux who struck an attitude and attempted to swallow poison. He was rushed to a hospital where he signed a statement swearing that he had never accepted a single sou from handsome Alex. Lawyers for Stavisky's principal agent, Secretary Gilbert...
...then a new theory had arisen, wild as anything in the entire case: Judge Prince was murdered by a gang of professional criminals that had revived the name and the manner of the early igth Century Carbonari. The theory wras voiced officially last week by white-chinned old Henri Chéron, now Minister of Justice. Said...
...wife work like one person with two heads, four hands, 20 fingers. "We compare notes," says M. Joliot, "and exchange our thoughts so constantly that we honestly don't know which of us is the first to have an original idea. Don't you agree, ma ch...
...capital notes or debentures by New York State banks, trust companies and industrial banking companies is specifically authorized by Subdivision 9 of Section 106, Subdivision 13 of Section 185 and Subdivision 8 of Section 292, respectively, of the New York State Banking Law, as added by L. 1933, ch. 230, empowering any such corporation...