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Speaking at Metz, President Doumergue deplored last week the continued weakness of the franc, lauded "the courageous efforts now being made toward stabilization" (TIME, May 31) and concluded his address with a dramatic warning: "If these efforts prove futile, France alone will not go down! Such a catastrophe would seriously affect the world economic situation for many years...
...Eastern and Western churches), Rheims (where church deliberations concerned social questions affecting the working classes), Paray-le-Monial (the city of the Sacred Heart), Brussels, Lourdes (the city of Eucharistic miracles), Angouleme (where French law was invoked to block the now regular procession of the Blessed Sacrament), Rome, Metz (where the Germans suspended the law of 1870 to permit the procession), London.** The XXI Eucharistic Congress was held in 1910 at Montreal close to the faith-healing shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre. This was a stupendous meeting of 750,000 pilgrims. But it was too far from the great...
...There are very few courses given on Saturday and consequently students may go away over the week-end. Paris is about four hours in the train, while Strassburg, Metz, and Verdun, are within two hours motoring distance. In the winter time a jaunt of 70 kilometers will take one to the Vosges mountains, where there are excellent winter sports...
...such matters, Mr. Metz is something more than a mere layman. He owns many chemical factories. But laboratory scientists were slow in getting to work. Said Columbia Professor of Chemistry Bogert: "Mr. Metz has risked little by his offer. . . . The making of a synthetic opium that will have all the medicinal qualities, or the good qualities, and be shy of the narcotic, or bad qualities, is something that I do not believe will be done-at least for a very long time...
...Metz' main objective would seem to be achieved if a synthetic opium having narcotic qualities were discovered. Such a formula could be controlled by the Government and would serve to destroy the vested poppy interests, as synthetic dyes replaced indigo growing...