Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harsh Proposition. De Gaulle, and his conservative Finance Minister Antoine Pinay (a small-town tanner before entering politics) added two other anti-inflationary controls. To keep wages in line, they abolished the old system of pegging salaries to the cost-of-living index-though to compensate France's poor...
When the gold ribbon and Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor is draped around his neck this week. General Charles de Gaulle will formally become President of France for the next seven years. Only then will De Gaulle officially name his successor as Premier. But, noting that would-be...
When the Nazis marched into Paris, Joanovici sought to avoid the concentration camps by taking out Soviet citizenship papers (the Nazi-Soviet pact was not yet broken). Taunted later for this, Joanovici snapped: "So, is it a crime? There were queues a mile long outside the Russian embassy."
PARIS--Gen. Charles de Gaulle became president of France yesterday and pledged to use his strong executive powers to keep the new Fifth Republic on the stern path he outlined as premier. He declared he would do what had to be done for the nation's good.
Marcel Ugols '61, of Lowell House, Paris, and Havana, business manager, David M. Landon '61, of Lowell House and New York City, circulation manager, and Mason D. Harris, Jr. '61, of Lowell House and Fitchburg, Bacchus, will also take office at the beginning of second semester.