Word: franc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From now on, Marshal Foch and the other Marshals of France will receive 75,000 francs ($3,000) a year; French lieutenants will get 6,000 francs ($325) a year; and the ordinary French poilu is to receive one franc a day (about...
...Cartel has rallied and gained sufficient internal unity to make it almost impossible to force the Briand-Doumer measure through the Chamber. Confronted by this annoying impasse, the astute M. Briand decided to make the gesture of Pontius Pilate while at the same time continuing at the helm of France. Briefly he "washed his hands" by declaring that the Chamber must decide whether it wanted the Doumer plan or the Cartel plan. At the same time he blazoned abroad that whichever plan the Chamber chose, he would not consider its vote as implying either "confidence" or "lack of confidence...
Despatches reported a slight upward adjustment in the scale of pay throughout the French army designed to counterbalance the gradual slump in the purchasing-power of the franc...
...length they held back an enormous crowd gathered to witness the opening of the Hungarian Parliament. Excitement ran high, for it was known that Premier Count Bethlen would present to the Deputies the Government's position with respect to the "national scandal," the recently discovered plot to flood France with counterfeited -in- Hungary 1,000-franc notes (TIME, Jan. 18). Premier Bethlen slipped into the Parliament building by a side entrance. For two hours he held last minute conferences with the leaders of the Opposition in the lobbies -cajoled, threatened, begged. It became obvious to the merest dullard that...
...months the Bank of France has been aware that attempts were being made to pass counterfeit 1,000-franc notes in Holland, Italy, Hungary. One day an Amsterdam banker, Mynheer Severin, sent to the Bank of France a 1,000-franc note which he had recognized as counterfeit when his Hungarian housemaid, one Vrouw Kovacs, asked him to change it for her into Dutch florins...