Word: mm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring in 570 million francs ($19,950,000). Other miscellaneous taxes passed in quick succession. The whole, together with the taxes passed before the last Briand Cabinet fell (TIME, March 15), totaled a tax increase of somewhat more than four billion francs. This was an accomplishment of which MM. Briand and Peret might well have been proud. Yet the Premier ominously remarked: "I am not at all satisfied...
...week opened, Finance Minister Peret commenced to juggle in earnest with the incredibly complicated fiscal problems bequeathed to him by Premier Briand's last two Finance Ministers, MM. Loucheur and Doumer (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.). From the additional taxes voted during the Dou-mer régime, M. Péret figured that he might derive 1,600,000,000 francs. He estimated that by still further drastic governmental economies he could save 500,000,000 francs. There remained a deficit variously estimated at between 3 and 4 billion francs. To meet it, M. Péret proposed...
Since autumn, three Finance Ministers (Caillaux, Painlevé and Loucheur) and two Premiers (Painlevé twice) have fallen on this one tax issue, without being able to get as far as MM. Briand and Doumer got last week?without being able to get the Chamber to indorse any program whatever for recouping the finances of France. Therefore, M. Briand's triumph was great. The Senators, eager to help him, prepared to "amend" the crazy-quilt bill into something workable. It was considered certain that they will stretch the constitutional limits of their amending power to the uttermost. Presumably when the bill goes...
Jugoslavia. The Jugoslavian Debt Mission, under Dr. Milan Stoyadinovich, and including MM. Djuritch, Radosavlievitch, Avramovitch, Svegel, Stamjec, arrived in Washington and announced their readiness to begin funding negotiations on their country's debt of $64,0000,000, which King Alexander in Belgrade last week described as "a debt of honor...
...Council accepted the report of its Committee of Investigation (TIME, Dec. 14) laying upon Greece the responsibility for the recent Greco-Bulgar clash (TIME, Nov. 2, GREECE). Athens was instructed to pay an indemnity of 30 million leva ($219,000) to Sophia. MM. Rendis and Kaldoff accepted this adjudication of the matter, respectively on behalf of the Greek and Bulgarian Governments...