Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...period of Miss Savage's examination was 5½ hours. No policewoman was present. She was alone with Inspector Collins and a male shorthand stenographer. She was told that "there's a lot more we want to know about this case," and that the constables who were fined for falsely arresting her "are respectable men with good police records and besides their wives have got to be considered." Inspector
Smart citizens of Paris felt a twinge of pique, last week, at news that a plan originally conceived by Louis XV's great architect Jacques Ange Gabriel to beautify the present Place de la Concord will shortly be carried to completion...
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...
...once and for all that the franc has declined to 4? from a pre-War value of 19.3?, or about 5 francs per $1. By these millions of voters the hope is nurtured that the franc, which sank as low as 2? in 1926, may rise further than its present value of 4?, perhaps to the dizzy height of 10?. To translate this hope into U. S. terms would be to say that a man who owned bonds worth $100,000 before the War now finds them worth $20,000 and hopes that they may rise...
...currency. Just now France sits fiscally pretty. Her trade balance is favorable. The Treasury has recently refunded advances previously made to it by the Bank of France to the amount of 900,000,000 francs. Such are the blessings which have flowed from holding the franc steady at its present value for almost two years (TIME, Jan. 3, 1927) under the Sacred Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Poincare...