Word: franc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parisian Usher's Association issued an explanatory bit of propaganda: 1) The ushers are not paid to usher. 2) Instead they pay 50 centimes (2?) a night to the management for each seat assigned tp them. 3) Therefore they must figure on a minimum tip of one franc (4?) from each person whom they usher into a seat, in order to earn even 25 francs ($1) per night...
...change of Ministers in France is of less importance to the residents of Los Angeles than a change of grade on an important thoroughfare. We are vastly more concerned about the price of gasoline than about the exchange value of the French franc. The Colorado River runs across the front pages of our newspapers, and the Rhine across an inside page. The January sales of our big department stores are of more interest to our people than a sale of French bonds. A new movie star attracts more attention than a French victory or defeat in the Libyan or Sahara...
Said Premier Poincare in Paris: "The Government has now held the franc stable at approximately 25 to the dollar and 123 to the pound since the first of the year (TIME, Jan. 3). ... The Government will do everything in its power to maintain this stability, and will continue to buy and sell francs at this rate until further notice...
...Lect. Hall Mr. Kreps, sects. H, L, M, R New Lect, Hall Mr. White, sects. D, G, U New Lect. Hall Mr. de Chareau, sects. I, T, Y Harvard 5 Mr. Taylor, sects. O, W, Z Harvard 6 Economics 4a Ach-Colpy Emerson A Collier-Franc Emerson F Gale-Wyler Emerson D English 39 Harvard 3 Fine Arts 1a Fogg Lect. R. Fine Arts 2b Fogg, small R. German 8 Emerson D German 25a Alberson-Guild Sever 35 Harrison-Youdelovits Sever 36 Government 4 Ackerson-Viner Sever 23 Wales-Wright Sever 24 Government 13a Harvard 2 Greek B II Sever...
...Lect. Hall Mr. Kreps, sects, H, L, M, R New Lect. Hall Mr. White, sects, D, G, U New Lect. Hall Mr. de Chazeau, sects, I, T, Y Harvard 5 Mr. Taylor, sects, O, W, Z Harvard 6 Economics 4a Ach-Colby Emerson A Collier-Franc Emerson F Gale-Wyler Emerson D English 39 Harvard 3 Fine Arts 1a Fogg Lect. R. Fine Arts 2b Fogg, small R. German 8 Emerson D German 25a Alberson-Guild Sever 35 Harrison-Youdelovitz Sever 36 Government 4 Ackerson-Viner Sever 23 Wales-Wright Sever 24 Government 13a Harvard 2 Greek B II Sever...