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Grief. To legionaries in general and Morris Klein of Wyoming in particular, who grieved at being charged high for rooms engaged through Legion headquarters, officials simply explained that most advance leases had, unfortunately but unavoidably, been made at a moment when the franc was extremely low and prices correspondingly high. Rooms engaged later and independently were cheaper because prices had descended as the franc rose. The Legion charged U. S. lessees 10% more than it paid French lessors?5% for overhead, 5% for agency commissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: In Paris | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Poincare, who is also Minister of Finance and cousin of the famed mathematician, Jules Henri Poincare, took over the control of French finances last year (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). At that time, with the franc daily plunging to new depths, the amount the state owed the Bank of France stood at 38,350,000,000 francs - 150,000,000 francs under the newly constituted limit, previous Finance Ministers having raised the loan limit to keep pace with the printing presses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: National Finances | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...proposed reunion in Paris on the tenth anniversary of the A. E. F.'s appearance on French soil, seriously doubted the wisdom of turning 15,000 Americans loose in a country where Americans had become distinctly unpopular. Was that unpopularity wholly erased -by the stabilization of the French franc, the debt negotiations, the visit of Heroes Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Legion Abroad | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Trocadero, public assembly hall hard by the Eiffel tower, was made ready for the formal convention of 1200 delegates. State of ficials laid out the 3,500,000-franc reception fund which the French parliament lately supplied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Legion Abroad | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Raymond Poincare has been 15 years a Deputy, 27 years a Senator, eight times a Minister, three times Premier (1911-13, 1922-24, 1926-), and was the great Wartime President of France (1913-20). His achievement during the last twelve-month has been: first, to raise the value of the franc from 41 to the dollar to 26; second, to cut the short-term indebtednesses of the State from 24,000,000,000 francs to less than 8,000,000,000 francs; third, to increase the Treasury reserves from 50,000,000 francs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Premier Feted | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

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