Word: franqui
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soldiery, Belgian banks were seized, Belgian gold and money were removed from the vaults, German paper marks planted in their place. In 1918, with the fall of Imperial Germany, these marks became worthless. All through the long meetings of the Second Dawes Commission this year, peppery Emile Franqui, chief of the Belgian delegation, insistently demanded that redemption of the worthless marks be included in the Young Plan. Germany's stiff-collared Hjalmar Schacht declared with equal insistence that he had no authority to do so. Chairman Owen D. Young saved his Plan by getting Herr Schacht and colleagues...
Finance Minister Emile Franqui stood stiff, straight, plump and proud, last week, while a deep red grand cordon was adjusted across his breast in the manner of the transverse strap of a Sam Brown Belt. Soon by a gold safety pin there was attached to M. Franqui the highest decoration in the gift of the Belgian Crown-the Order of Leopold. Twinkling it dangled, glittered: a gold edged white enamel cross suspended from a royal crown and resting on a green laurel and oak wreath, at the centre on a black field the golden lion of Belgium, below the motto...
Finance Minister Emile Franqui, and M. Franck, Governor of the Bank of Belgium, were acclaimed as the two Belgian financiers chiefly responsible for negotiating the international loan, and "advising" King Albert, recently created "Dictator of Belgium" (TIME, July 26) to stabilize the old franc by decree instead of creating a new currency...
...this reason the stabilized Belgian franc-hereafter to be quoted on international exchange in belgas-was dubbed by fiscal humorists last week the "Franck-Franqui franc...