Word: fiscales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much as freedom-loving Frenchmen hate and fear a Dictator, their Chamber and Senate recently vested swarthy Premier Pierre Laval with dictatorial fiscal powers (TIME, June 17). So long as Parliament remained in session, canny M. Laval lay low, was criticized for not using his powers. With Deputies and Senators now on vacation, the Premier last week asked his coalition Cabinet to meet him in the historic Clock Room of the French Foreign Office one day at 9:30 a. m. Figuratively M. Laval then locked the door. Except for lunch and dinner, superbly provided by the famed chef...
...Cheered Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, who hopes to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister after the coming election, when he made certain cut & dried fiscal observations the excuse for launching into something resembling President Roosevelt's self-congratulatory fireside talks...
...earlier depression, vetoed every bill he thought was unconstitutional, fought bitterly with Congress to maintain the gold dollar, and declared that "though the people support the Government the Government should not support the people." ¶ The Treasury presented the President with figures on New Deal operations for fiscal 1935, concluded last week...
...services to respond to long standing Soviet proposals for a Russo-Japanese peace pact which would permit the two great powers to demobilize nearly 2,000,000 troops which they now maintain to defend their common frontier. As further proof that Japan's economy is being severely pinched, Fiscal Wizard Takahashi pointed to recent declines in Japanese common stocks of even the most popular munitions companies...
Winning royal gratitude for his work as Assessor-Extraordinary of Sweden's Royal Board of Mines and for his invention of a device for transporting ships overland, he was ennobled in 1719. In Sweden's Parliament he pioneered in fiscal reforms and liquor regulation. He knew nine languages, was an accomplished organist and Latin versifier, mastered three crafts and dabbled in four others. Finally in 1744, aged 57, he began talking with angels and spirits...