Word: franc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Albert of the Belgians abdicated last week as fiscal dictator of his country (TIME, July 26), a role which he has played so successfully that the Belgian franc is stabilized (TIME, Nov. 8), and a new momentary unit, the belga circulates. To signalize the definite success of his administration, King Albert's last act as "dictator," last week, was to cancel a sheaf of emergency taxes, notably the 10% tax on foreigners' hotel bills...
...Franc pieces and two-franc pieces were minted into mountainous piles for the first time since the War; 88,000,000 francs in metallic currency were ordered struck, of this 38,000,000 in "small change," nickel and aluminum 5, 10 and 25 centime pieces...
Cold and Cash. A prolonged and most exceptional cold wave has smitten France during the past month, thus still further hurting Riviera tourist trade. Twenty persons died of the cold in France last week, when the thermometer fell to 14° above zero in several cities.† Moreover, Signor Mussolini has lured many tourists from the French to the Italian Riviera by " cutting down Italian tourist taxes while those in France remain high. Finally the doubling of the gold value of the franc in five months (TIME, July 26) has scared away still more tourists and produced a serious fiscal...
...hardships came fatefully on the eve of elections affecting one-third of the French Senate which will be held in mid-January. The present Senate is predominantly Conservative and has stood as the rock upon which Premier Poincaré has based his efforts to increase the value of the franc...
...Kerr and Miss Bainter are most irretrievably in love through the introduction of 266 amatory forms of address, 33 kisses, and 18 embraces. At the end of the act Mr. Kerr has gone off to marry his Father's choice in a plot to obtain the 500,000 franc bribe and then desert her, while Miss Bainter has gone off to a mysterious Baron "with a car a mile long" who has been writing her tender notes...