Word: franc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time the Chamber of Deputies voted down, last week, a measure proposed by Premier Raymond Poincaré's present "Sacred Union" Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 2 et seq.). The Cabinet has stood unshakable until now, because of its great achievement in rescuing the franc from collapse and more than doubling its gold value. But today, with this crisis passed, and with a general election scheduled for next year, party strife is reviving. The vote last week was on a matter of no intrinsic importance; but it proved, by a count of 265 to 256 against the Cabinet, that Premier...
...From a national panic with the franc at 50 to the dollar, back to present tranquility with the franc at 25 (TIME...
Because Premier Poincaré has given France a strong Cabinet at last and has stabilized the franc (TIME, Jan. 3) the prestige of his ministers is increasing to a pitch which would have been deemed unattainable when the cabinet was formed (TIME...
...confidences of a lawyer's or doctor's client are privileged in U. S. courts, so this priest insisted were his confessional secrets. The public prosecutor cajoled and bullied; the priest remained obdurate. The judge ended the Punch & Judy show by fining the priest one Swiss franc ($0.1923) for contempt of court, and dismissing him as a witness...
...Russian students exiled from their homeland, many of whom are to be found in the universities of Europe trying to carry on their studies against tremendous odds. It is these students whom the S. F. F. is trying to help in their hour of great trouble. Further, in France, owing to the fall of the franc there is great poverty today among thousands of French students. It was at the suggestion of the German students, who from bitter personal experience knew the tragedy of the French students position, that the S. F. F. assumed the responsibility of raising...