Word: franc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been taken abroad of Premier Doumergue's manifold stewardship. In the realm of diplomacy his Government has all but isolated Germany, won Russia's strong support and obtained the backing of Britain and Italy for the Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME, July 23). When Premier Doumergue took office France was embroiled in bitter tariff and quota disputes with Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland. Now all of these have been ironed out by trade treaties. Only in arming France has Gastounet been extravagant. He has forced through supplemental appropriations of over three billion francs to complete the French system...
...Marie Curie's mind was clear and she was ready to die. She had come far since her birth in Poland 66 years ago. In Warsaw her father had been a physics professor, her mother principal of a girls' school. Their daughter Marie had to flee to France because Russian officials frowned on her efforts to stimulate interest in the Polish language. While studying in Paris she lived in a bare garret, ate meals that cost half a franc a day, met a brooding, handsome young physics instructor whom she twitted for expressing astonishment at her learning...
...tint to which they have burned their skins at Deauville or Juan-les-Pins, soft, squashy, exquisite Baron Maurice de Rothschild is generally on hand to pass on their face and form. The women call him "Momo" and his pajamas are a sight to rival theirs. In France he used to be regularly elected Deputy because he bought his rural constituents so many free drinks and livestock. That scandal won him the distinction of being one of the few French Deputies ever unseated for bribery by his legislative peers. Later he was discreetly elected Senator. Lately he reached...
Marthe Hanau knows as much about French official corruption as anyone. A bulbous, masculine woman of strong character, she and her divorced husband founded the tipster sheet. Gazette du Franc et des Nations, in 1925, and sold $4,000,000 worth of securities to poor Frenchmen, eight of whom committed suicide when she was jailed for swindling and bankruptcy. For 15 months she sat in her cell, without trial, out of public sight. Meanwhile, someone stole a bale of documents from the prosecuting attorney's office, later mailed back the rifled closet key. Finally, in 1930, Marthe went...
...friend of a legitimate Saint. Years ago in his native Normandy he used to play the guitar while Thérèse Martin, the "Little Flower" of Lisieux, sang hymns. This intrepid Norman was Minister of Finance immediately after Premier Poincaré's famed stabilization of the franc, served in three cabinets and retired in 1930, leaving a treasury surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. Because Papa Chéron was never one to become needlessly excited, Frenchmen knew that things were bad indeed last week when he gave weight to wild stories of impending civil...