Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner did the franc begin to rise than Frenchmen began to fear it would rise too fast. Frenchmen, as well as others, who had to buy francs at a price higher than they reckoned, were forced to sell securities in order to meet their obligations. This caused dumping on the Bourse. And this nearly precipitated a panic...
This will be the twenty-seventh annual debate for the medal established in 1898 by Pierre de Cubertin, who had been sent to America to study American educational institutions. He established contests in various colleges under the name of Frenchmen of importance, naming the one at Harvard after Pasteur...
Cause of Decline. Using the military phraseology so appealing to Frenchmen, Premier Poincare, backed by diplomatic despatches and official documents, declared that the cause of the fall of the franc was a German "offensive," operating from Amsterdam. Poincare asserted that German business houses, using 13 billions of French notes held outside of France as "a means of maneuver," had stimulated an artificial fall by false quotations. He said that "bear" gamblers had fallen into the trap and that the franc was persecuted on exchange in London, New York, Amsterdam, Vienna, Milan. In time the movement was reflected in Paris...
This is the twenty-seventh annual debate for the medal established in 1898 by Baron Pierre De Coubertin who had been sent by the French government to study American educational institutions. He established contests under the names of Frenchmen of importance in Harvard, Yale, Princeton and a few other colleges, naming the one here after Pasteur. The purpose of the debate is to acquaint American students with French life and institutions...
...connection with this is the Jewish question. I made its acquaintance during the war. For me it is a question of race. Little as the Englishmen or Frenchmen can be permitted to obtain dominion over us, so little can the Jew be permitted. Freedom of the nation cannot be expected from him. Therefore I was against...