Word: francs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Police issued two appeals to the public to turn back the money. The sandwich man and two others turned up, each with a thousand-franc note. The rest of the beneficiaries apparently agreed with Dreamer Formartin that their need was greater than that of Messrs. A. Freyman...
...give you something." And with that, opening the briefcase, he handed the sandwichman a thousand-franc note...
...Maxime Formartin walked along, handing out handfuls of thousand-franc notes, looking especially for the poor & needy. He felt like a king distributing largesse. The number of poor & needy seemed endless. Late that night the police found Maxime dead drunk on the street, his pockets and briefcase empty. In jail the next afternoon, sober but still glowing at the memory of his benefactions, Maxime was unrepentant. "The boss has money enough," he said. "What's 500,000 francs to him? He has 50 million...
Already the defeated are living and eating better than many of the victors. West Germany's great industry, miraculously reclaimed from the rubble of surrender, competes seriously with the industry of the winners. Its Deutsche mark is sounder than France's franc, its economy (though not its moral position) less precarious in many ways than Britain's. By the act of affixing signatures last week to the peace contract and European Defense treaties, the Western democracies accepted the re-emergence of West Germany as a first-class European power. With this acceptance went the knowledge that soon...
Paris art lovers trooped in to see the show at the rate of 1,000 a day. Consensus: a thumping success. Even the left-wing Franc-Tireur was full of praise: "The show is a festival of rare quality, a festival both for the eye and the heart." The only Frenchmen who took no pleasure in the whole thing were the Communists. Asked why he didn't go and have a look at the exhibit (which contains eight of his paintings), old Party-Liner Pablo Picasso said: "I have no time...