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...corporations were restricted to not more than twelve or fewer than three members. The president of a company must be an active participant in its management and president and board are personally liable for all the company's debts. All abuses of the capitalistic system, Finance Minister Marcel Yves Bouthillier said, evolved around the "irresponsibility of the chiefs of the corporations." The new legislation meant no more "monkeying around with other people's money...
When he returns he will be in charge of French 7, Romanticism and Realism in Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Until his return the course will be conducted by Marcel Francon, associate professor of Romance Languages...
...secretary of Goethe, young Arthur Schopenhauer's hysterical bluestocking sister, Goethe's tortured, psychically castrated, piteous son-and its equally unpleasant effects upon a whole household and community. The exquisite, shriveling protocols of the formal luncheon are established with a finality, a bland cruelty, at which Marcel Proust might gasp...
...Since Adolf Hitler began to liquidate German scholarship in 1933, every ship from Europe has borne eminent scholars to the U. S. Today many of them teach in U. S. colleges and universities. At Harvard are ex-Chancellor Heinrich Brüning; famed Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer; renowned City Planner Martin Wagner; Werner Jaeger, one of the world's most eminent classical scholars...
Without waiting for the Nazis to depart, France's new Minister of Finance, Marcel Yves Bouthillier, moved his ministry back to Paris and as an optimistic gesture ordered the reopening of the Bourse. "The finances of France must now be handled by improvisation," declared the scholarly, 39-year-old Minister, who has one of the best money minds in France. Neither a Fascist nor a politician, Bouthillier has spent the entire 14 years of his public life in the Finance Ministry, leaves it to attend the opera, to go to bed, or to indulge in his favorite sport-sailing...