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...world, a possibility under Article VII of the agreement. French fear that Germans might eventually acquire these bonds, thus putting France under a sort of fiscal vassalage to her worst enemies, was thereby allayed. Since this particular "emotional factor" had loomed like a boojum, and threatened to rouse Frenchmen unalterably against ratification, to eliminate it was of paramount import...
...discovered that he had countenanced tampering with the books of the Bank of France, arose, not to urge any program of his own to save the franc, but solely to upset his rival, M. Briand, and enemy, M. Caillaux, whose notorious reputation has made him suspect of many Frenchmen (TIME, July...
...Frenchmen consider that peace with Krim was cheap at the price, promised him comfortable support in his exile...
...Alfonse and Gaston," famed comic-strip Frenchmen in comical silk hats, came irresistibly to mind, last week as the Chamber debated with classic frenzy the fiscal policy to be pursued by France. Finance Minister Caillaux, a bald and dapper "Gaston," outlined with deadly earnestness in a high pitched squeaky voice the keynotes of his plan to save the franc...
...Louisiana, Smithsonian Institution men reported traces of Mayan influence in pottery and ornaments taken from "kitchen middens" or mounds of clam shells, upon which doubtless lived prehistoric ancestors of the Chitimachan mound-dwellers observed there in the 17th century by Frenchmen...