Word: mm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MM. les Deputes were presented last week with the 1932 budget which, to the ingenuous eye, balanced. A little rapid pencil work by Deputies of the Left showed that it did nothing of the sort. There was an actual deficit of between $160,000,000 and $280,000,000 hidden by such devices as counting only nine months for expenditures but twelve months for receipts, and including Reparations payments which Germany obviously will not make because of the Hoover Moratorium...
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...Punch & Judy theatres were set up by tail-coated, gold-buttoned lackeys. The contestants appeared: a M. Jane, a M. Robert Désarthis. M. Jane, a modernist, introduced into his performance such persons as Charlie Chaplin and Bicot, the French cinema comedian. MM. les Sénateurs and their children would have none of him. Puppeteer Désarthis, an entrepreneur who had already had many a successful season farther south in the Pare de Montsouris, triumphed...
...Chile by political agitation against their nitrate interests, in Manhattan, on their copper front, they faced the Belgian Congo's prolific Katanga. Nor were they alone in their fears of potent Union Miniere du Haut Katanga. Represented by Belgian Minister of State Emile Francqui and his cohorts, MM. Fernand Pisart & Camille Gutt, Katanga was forcing a hard bargain on a conference of the world's copper producers. Further curtailment of output to cut down the mounting supplies of copper on hand was the conference's purpose. Through the guarded doors no statements came from the conferences...
...customary dodge to get around the Sherman Act. But not only were conferences informal, they were just about over. Emile Francqui, chief of the Katangans, departed for home. A. Chester Beatty, chairman of Rhodesia's important Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd., said he was sailing Friday night; MM. Pisart & Gutt took passage on the Saturday sailing of the Ile de France. The conference looked like a failure. Then someone made a mysterious move and the foreigners stayed...