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...Raoul-where was he? Clerks and sub-clerks, permanent secretaries and under secretaries in the Ministry of Agriculture debated the question with quips sharpened by a vague anxiety. Raoul La Chapelle was popular, the manager of a department. Now for over a week he had not been to the office, nor had he telephoned or written to say where he was. Ever since the night of a feêe when, expected to dinner, he had failed to appear, Raoul La Chapelle had been lost as completely as if he were dead. At last the Minister of Agriculture himself sent...
...Suicide ? It seemed so, but who could imagine a man like Raoul taking his own life. . . . Murder? That seemed more likely, said friends of his who, like most young Frenchmen, had read the tales of Edgar Allen Poe. But the police said no to both hypotheses. What had happened was quite simple, they said. Raoul La Chapelle had dressed for the feête, had climbed up on the stool to see himself full length in the glass. Standing so, he had taken hold of the grips, connected to elastic cords, on which he did his daily exercises...
...Senator Raoul Dandurand.... Minister without Portfolio
...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...
...Raoul Peret. As Premier Briand's third Finance Minister in as many months, M. Peret has fallen heir to the seemingly insoluble fiscal problems of France. His immediate predecessor, Senator Doumer, failed to solve them, although he is one of the greatest fiscal experts in France. His predecessor was, of course, M. Loucheur, "the richest man in France," a great industrialist whose failure was no less complete. Now appears M. Peret, a skilled lawyer and a veteran politician, but scarcely an expert of the first rank in state finance. He occupied himself with a modicum of quiet activity last week...