Word: droits
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...appointment of Alexander was a neat solution. Said the Ottawa Evening Journal: "[He] is peculiarly qualified to give this country service far beyond his ritualistic duties." But many French Canadians were unsoothed. Cried the nationalist Le Droit: "Once more Mr. King has gone to Great Britain for Canada's Governor General. The diehard imperialists once more have gained their ends...
...Droit, respected French-speaking Ottawa daily (circ.: 19,000), was fined $200 for a column generally ascribed to Editor Charles Gautier denouncing Britain's "murderous raids" on "our dear France." (P.S.: Editor Gautier lost...
...months ago his Government abolished the droit de tablier ("right of the apron"), the fee that waiters and washroom attendants had to pay their employers for the privilege of working for tips...
...week. Hotel, restaurant and cafe workers, still waiting to be included in the 40-hour setup, staged a noisy demonstration to protest against employers who refuse to grant shorter working hours during the impending tourist season. To appease them the French Government had already been obliged to abolish the Droit de Tab-lier ("Right of the Apron"), the "privilege" of waiters, hat-checkers, washroom attendants, doorkeepers to pay their employers for allowing them to work for tips. In some swank Paris cafés this has cost waiters as much as 100 francs ($4.43) a week. Bricklayers, plumbers, plasterers were...
...droit de suite occasionally rights wrongs. In 1926 The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau, who died in poverty, fetched 420,000 francs ($16,800) at a Paris auction. Rousseau's sister, a Mme Bernard, sued the original owner, M. Eichenberger, for her 3% ($504) which he refused to pay on the grounds that it was not a real sale. His own agents had bid the picture in at the reserve price of 420,000 fr. when it was not exceeded. In court, Mme Bernard...