Word: poincare
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...laughed au nez ("hee-hawed") when fiery M. Leon Daudet, editor of the hysterically Royalist newspaper L'Action Francaise was recently released from prison (TIME, July 4) by a faked telephone order supposed to have come from a member of the august "Sacred Union Cabinet" of Premier Raymond Poincaré. Since that merry escapade every policeman in France has received the order "Arrest M. Leon Daudet on sight"-but Daudet has managed to conceal his whereabouts. Therefore a sensation burst last week, at Paris, when it was announced that Editor Daudet would positively address a Royalist audience...
Held by bankers & investors in the U. S. are |70,000,000 of a French bond issue, paying a high interest rate of 8%. Premier Raymond Poincaré and his Government mulled over the problem of retiring them in favor of a new loan at a lower rate to be sought in the U. S. market. Governments who have not yet agreed upon a plan to pay their debts to this country are forbidden to raise funds...
...francs wanted. Delegates representing them and delegates of other contributing countries last week signed a scroll commemorating their deeds. That scroll M. Edouard Herriot, onetime (1924-25, 1926) premier of France and now Minister of Public Instruction & Fine Arts in the cabinet of Premier Raymond Poincaré, carefully rolled up and meticulously placed inside the cornerstone...
...phenomena followed physical laws. In his laboratory he treated glycerin with certain acids and got fats, oils and butters. He combined hydrogen and carbon by means of the voltaic arc and got acetylene. "Berthelot condenses it [acetylene] under the action of heat and behold, we have benzine," writes Premier Poincaré in the current Chimie et Industrie, French periodical. "He adds hydrogen and behold, there appears ethylene, which, united with water, will produce alcohol. He places it in contact with air and with an alkaline solution-and behold, acetic acid or vinegar. If I were to enumerate all his successful...
...only immediate effect that this ballon d'cssai had last week was to cause M. Poincarè to assert that France would continue her debt payments to the U. S. and Britain by extending the temporary arrangement under which she has been paying $20,000,000 a year to each country. A fuller statement was promised "early next year," the British agreement expiring in March; the U. S. in June...