Word: debre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anarchical students led by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Shoring up his government, De Gaulle fired eight Ministers, including just about everyone identified with his old social and labor policies, and switched two important portfolios: Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville went to the Treasury, while Finance Minister Michel Debré moved over to the Quai d'Orsay to take Couve's place. Aside from being an astute diplomat, Couve de Murville is an exceptionally effective administrator and an inspecteur des finances whose task will be to get France's shaken economy in order. Debré, always close...
Arriving at Stockholm airport, Finance Minister Michel Debré stirred more concern by repeating the French demands with embellishments. As the conference opened, club-wielding police broke up a demonstration against the Viet Nam war by 150 young Swedes, some of them carrying signs reading SUPPORT FOR THE DOLLAR IS SUPPORT FOR GENOCIDE and NO CREDITS TO U.S. MURDERERS. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, chief U.S. delegate, took a back entrance to avoid the melee...
Around a green-covered table in the Foresta, the clash of views was polite, if pointed. Debré, pressing for debate on the monetary system as a whole, came out formally for an increase in the official price of gold. A long silence ensued. Finally, German Economics Minister Karl Schiller registered his disagreement. Italy's Emilio Colombo sided with the Germans. The U.S.'s Fowler suggested that the real business of the meeting was the SDRs and asked that the group move briskly along in that area...
...employees are putting in half an hour work per day without pay for the rest of the year. The proceeds from this go into a kitty to pay for transportation, food and ski lessons. The French government, too, has pitched in. When Duhamel explained the project, Finance Minister Michel Debré agreed to waive about $9,000 in company taxes and social security payments a year. Thus, with a snow-and-sew fund of $60,000, St. Sorlin is expected...
...from restraints on tourism, which Katzenbach said might take the form of a head tax, increased passport fees or a tax based on the number of days spent abroad. While France demanded that the U.S. hold formal talks with its trading partners before imposing restrictive measures. Finance Minister Michel Debré hinted at reprisals if U.S. companies are forced to repatriate their profits rather than reinvest them in France...