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Because Premier Poincaré has given France a strong Cabinet at last and has stabilized the franc (TIME, Jan. 3) the prestige of his ministers is increasing to a pitch which would have been deemed unattainable when the cabinet was formed (TIME...
...confidences of a lawyer's or doctor's client are privileged in U. S. courts, so this priest insisted were his confessional secrets. The public prosecutor cajoled and bullied; the priest remained obdurate. The judge ended the Punch & Judy show by fining the priest one Swiss franc ($0.1923) for contempt of court, and dismissing him as a witness...
...Parisian Usher's Association issued an explanatory bit of propaganda: 1) The ushers are not paid to usher. 2) Instead they pay 50 centimes (2?) a night to the management for each seat assigned tp them. 3) Therefore they must figure on a minimum tip of one franc (4?) from each person whom they usher into a seat, in order to earn even 25 francs ($1) per night...
...Russian students exiled from their homeland, many of whom are to be found in the universities of Europe trying to carry on their studies against tremendous odds. It is these students whom the S. F. F. is trying to help in their hour of great trouble. Further, in France, owing to the fall of the franc there is great poverty today among thousands of French students. It was at the suggestion of the German students, who from bitter personal experience knew the tragedy of the French students position, that the S. F. F. assumed the responsibility of raising...
...change of Ministers in France is of less importance to the residents of Los Angeles than a change of grade on an important thoroughfare. We are vastly more concerned about the price of gasoline than about the exchange value of the French franc. The Colorado River runs across the front pages of our newspapers, and the Rhine across an inside page. The January sales of our big department stores are of more interest to our people than a sale of French bonds. A new movie star attracts more attention than a French victory or defeat in the Libyan or Sahara...