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Cleverest perhaps of "Great Catherine's" maneuvers was to publish an imposing Parisian financial daily La Gazette du Franc et Des Nations, in which her bogus stock issues were gravely and "conservatively" analyzed and recommended. The pose of "American Methods" was played up to the limit in La Gazette, which from the first vigorously championed the Kellogg Pact Renouncing War (TIME, July 30) a document none too popular in France. During the last session of the League of Nations in Geneva, the Swindleress was dazzlingly present, offering and paying the unheard price of 25,000 francs ($975) for short...
Counselor Joseph Cahill, exhaustively analyzing whole mountains of sources, concludes that present French prosperity rests on four primary bases: 1) Stabilization of the franc by Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, an achievement now nearly two years old (TIME, Feb. 7, 1927); 2) Protection of French industries by the present tariff; 3) Enlargement of French factories and productive equipment; 4) Development of new processes and enhancement of technical efficiency...
...Elysee Palace a small golden clock tinkled ten. Jovial, florid Gaston Doumergue was settling contentedly to the digestion of his late presidential dinner. From the clock a low, rapid tik-tik-tik. From the President of France a contented, sleepy sigh. Felicity! Then a door yawned and in strode busy, kinetic M. Raymond Poincaré, the man who saved and stabilized the franc, the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine...
White folks at Monte Carlo were enviously agog, last week, at the luck of a tall, tawny young woman who won prodigiously at Baccarat, cashed in her chips, stuffed into the décolleté bosom of her gown a bulging bundle of 1,000 franc notes, and whirled out upon the dance floor in the arms of one Earl Leslie...
...furious oratorical flank attacks seriously embarrassed the Generalissimo of the Budget, keen, masterful Raymond Poincaré, Prime Minister, Finance Minister, and famed as the man who saved the franc two years ago from utter collapse (TIME...