Word: franc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Passage of this 97-word bill by the House of Representatives last week caused intense financial excitement abroad. In Paris the dollar slumped below the gold point (25.3562 francs). The Federal Reserve Bank in New York kept telephoning the Bank of France to buy dollars. The guilder, the Swiss franc and the belga soared to year-high values against the dollar...
...State must supply to each candidate free billboard space. If the candidate, instead of advertising himself, used his space to advertise stomach tablets, shoe-blacking or mineral water, that used to be the candidate's own business-but no longer. Last week the threat of a 10.000-franc fine ($400) kept French political billboards uncluttered by advertisements...
...money is in Germany today the Government rashly advertised last week by seizing the Berlin bank account of famed Erich Maria (All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque and accusing him: 1) of having established a residence in the Netherlands and 2) of banking outside Germany his dollar, pound, franc, lira and other royalties...
Pensioned, Raymond Poincare, one-time president of France, "Savior of the Franc"; by the Chamber of Deputies; at 200,000 francs (currently $7,880) a year. Should he die before his wife, his relict will receive half as much...
With King Albert presiding, Belgium's Cabinet lately approved a two-year plan of national retrenchment. What they think of this plan sturdy Belgians showed last week by oversubscribing a one-billion-franc internal loan offered by the Government to the public at 5%. Capitalists to the core, thousands of Belgian petite bourgeoisie organized tiny pools, each pool buying one bond...