Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emile Moreau or Charles Rist of the Banque de France...
...most potent banker in France, M. Emile Moreau, has never held a post in a private bank. Last week the mere report that he had threatened to resign as Governor of the Bank of France caused consternation among politicians and appeared to have swayed the iron judgment of Prime Minister Raymond Poincare himself. The question at issue was whether to set up the now virtually stabilized paper franc on a gold basis. To this problem M. Moreau brings strictly practical knowledge acquired during an entire lifetime spent in the Treasury and allied services, latterly as Director General of the State...
During the week Banker Moreau deprecated but avoided denying an authoritative report that he has threatened to resign unless Prime Minister Poincare ceases to procrastinate in making the paper franc legally equivalent to and exchangeable for its present approximate value in gold-namely 4? to the franc or 25 francs...
Hopes v. Speculators. To the 6,000,000 hope-against-hopers Banker Emile Moreau can say only, first that their hopes are too extravagant ever to be realized, and second that the Bank of France has not sufficient resources to go on protecting the franc against foreign speculators, unless there is applied that potent check to speculation, a law establishing the currency on a gold basis...
...London a conference was in progress, last week, between Governor of the Bank of France Émile Moreau and Governor of the Bank of England Montagu Norman. They were reported to be entertaining favorably proposals made at Paris by M. Titulescu which look toward the stabilization of the Rumanian leu by an international loan...