Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Franco-Spanish troops, continuing their recent offensive against Abd-El-Krim from the South and East (TIME, May 17 et seq.), were astonished to discover one morning last week that the enemy had vanished in the night, that white flags were aflutter where Riffian machine guns popped when darkness fell. After conducting for five years one of the most stubborn "native revolts" of the present century against the encroachment of "civilized powers," Abd-El-Krim apparently decided last week that his jig was up?sued for peace, surrendered unconditionally...
...franc teetered sickeningly last week, plunged from 31½% to the dollar to 35 1/3, steadied, gathered strength, skyrocketed to 30¾%. Though explanations were many, two facts stood out sharply. Just before the franc's toboggan, Finance Minister Peret was obliged to announce that pourparlers for definitely funding the Franco-British debt had broken down between himself and Chancellor Winston Churchill of the British Exchequer at London. Conversely, the franc rose as soon as the French Cabinet and the Bank of France announced, after M. Peret's return to Paris from London, that the French Government would, if necessary, employ...
Other speakers and their subjects were as follows. W. F. Nash '26, L'Ecrivain francais d'aujourd'hui; R. S. Coolidge '27, "L'accord economique franco-allemande"; R. G. Fiske '28, "La Dette des Etats-Unis a la France vers...
...While the Sultan stolidly watched an exhibition of Arabian trick riding at the fair, the Franco-Spanish war against Abd-El-Krim, who also claims to be Sultan of Morocco, continued less than 50 miles away...
Last week at Paris a Franco-German air compact was signed. Its purport was to smooth out the more embittered points of contention between France and Germany, while leaving in effect the drastic Allied restrictions upon purely military German aircraft...