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Lucky Seven. Finance Minister Peret had the satisfaction of seeing this wave of fear carry his fiscal program (TIME, April 5) past the shoals upon which his six immediate predecessors have had their fiscal projects wrecked...
...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...
...prominent Left politician, he was taken in to reconcile the Left for the presence in the new Cabinet of Finance Minister Raoul Peret (Centre) and the dropping of several Left ministers who served in the last Cabinet but were not asked to return...
Malvy. It was remarked that Finance Minister Peret (Centre) and Minister of the Interior Malvy (Radical) stand in the relation of dog to cat. Politically each attracts the group .which the other repels, and vice versa. Their personal animosity could scarcely have a stronger foundation than the fact that M. Peret was instrumental in securing the banishment of M. Malvy for "defeatism" during...