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...atmosphere was tense and dramatic last week when the General Assembly of the Bank of France met with its 15 regents to hear the annual report of Governor Jean Samson Tannery. The Governor was appointed just 13 months ago by then Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, who instructed him to "loosen up credit" in France and resort to various pump-priming devices. Into the Bank of France swept Jean Samson Tannery, ordered removed the heavy double cur tains favored by his gloom-loving predecessors and installed cheerful, high-power indirect lighting. But that was about all. The regents of the Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Zay! Zay! | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...Asthmatics. Noel Franklin Shambaugh of the University of Southern Cali fornia has cured some sufferers from asthma by giving them drugs to loosen phlegm in their lungs, then having them assume a head-down posture. In that position, they hacked, coughed and spit for three minute periods morning " evening until asthma left them entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Greater Mankind | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...compatriots' compliment by dedicating The Last of Mr. Norris to W. H. Auden. To canny readers, this salute was as unmistakable a signal as a finger laid to the nose: Author Isherwood is a lad of the new day, and oldsters had best avoid him altogether or loosen their collars before they begin to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Rapscallion | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Flandin wants. Spokesmen for the young Premier said happily that French banks, which are now loaded up with some 10,000,000,000 of short-term Treasury paper, will soon re-discount this at the Bank of France and consequently will be in a position to loosen up French credit generally. The Treasury will also do some short-term unloading of its own upon the Bank of France, thus getting funds with which to appear to balance the budget without having, to ask the Chamber to vote higher taxes. By this fascinating maneuver the State also avoids another long-term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tightwad Up & Out | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...shall during the summer and autumn, as best I may, present these matters to the people of this country and urge them to ask the leaders at Washington to loosen the grip of bureaucracy upon the daily lives and habits of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Great Opposer | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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