Word: franc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfonse and Gaston," famed comic-strip Frenchmen in comical silk hats, came irresistibly to mind, last week as the Chamber debated with classic frenzy the fiscal policy to be pursued by France. Finance Minister Caillaux, a bald and dapper "Gaston," outlined with deadly earnestness in a high pitched squeaky voice the keynotes of his plan to save the franc...
...Government to demand authority from Parliament to act by decree and to conduct in secret its operations to resuscitate the franc. (It touched a new low-for-all-time last week-39.01 to the dollar...
Correspondents ruefully discovered that with the recent advent of M. Caillaux (TIME, July 5) the Finance Ministry could now be expected to deny at eve its morning statements to the press. Amid this aura of uneasiness and suspicion, the franc sought a new low, 36.88 to the dollar...
International Business has reached, for the first time since the war, the level of 1913. ... As a matter of fact, the weakness of the franc and lira is not by any means a symptom of any prevalent European infirmity; it is simply the last vestige of prolonged convalescence. Sterling exchange was well able to stand the strain of the recent general strike and there has been a steady gratifying recovery of Scandinavian, Dutch, Japanese and other important exchanges, despite the loud clamor for "managed currencies" and other fiscal "quackery."-Dr. Julius Klein, Director of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign...
...years Mayor of Lyons, President of the Chamber of Deputies, leader of the Coalition of Left Parties, ousted from the Premiership (TIME, April 13, 20, 1925) when it was rumored that he had connived at juggling the accounts of the Finance Ministry to conceal inflation of the franc...