Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jourdan's farm at Cocherel was bought by Briand with his Nobel Peace Prize money (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). The rest of his estate, believed to total le"ss than $4,000, goes to his sister and niece...
Marshal Foch, took his seat as an "Immortal" but the ludicrous thing that occurred was not made known. Passed a decent interval. Last week Paris was at length permitted to chuckle hugely over what le petit General said when he took his seat. "Messieurs!" cried General Weygand in such ringing, parade ground tones that even aged, deaf Immortals had no need to cup hand to ear, "Messieurs, I had pre pared a speech of more than six pages* to thank you for the honor you have done me, but I left it on my study table...
...more potent than most statesmen is alert, tactiturn M. le Professeur Charles Rist, fiscal expert of the Bank of France. When he and his corps of secretaries descend in these days upon a minor European capital local Treasury officials are in a panic, hope for a loan, fear disclosures. In Bucharest last week M. le Professeur Charles Rist made an announcement which rocked the Kingdom of Rumania...
Investigation has disclosed, intimated M. le Professeur, who never speaks for publication, that the Royal Government has pursued for the past ten years a budgetary policy of letting expenditures exceed receipts. Public works have been unproductive to the point of threatening the stability of Rumania's depreciated currency. Professor Rist advised wholesale weeding out of superfluous Government employes, salary cuts of 50% and further drastic retrenchments. For the Bank of France to extend any more loans to Rumania (longtime "Little Ally" of France), he concluded, is in these circumstances totally unthinkable...
Significance & Screams, Though M. le Professeur Charles Rist did the actual work of execution last week, the French Government has long been in a mood to force the Rumanian Government back to the path of sound finance and moral decency...