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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Living conditions at Nancy and, indeed all over France, are very inexpensive at the present rate of exchange, while the tuition fees are perhaps ridiculously low. Due to the governmental subsidy it is possible for a student to follow all the courses in the University, if he so desires for the absurdly low rate of 70 francs for the year or about $3.00. If he wishes to qualify for a degree there is a charge of 30 francs...
...Italy's War debts on the score that the U. S. and Britain made "excess profits" out of war materials. These profits, he held, should not be repaid. Concerning the remainder, he advocated nonpayment of interest, extension over a long period of years of capital payments at the rate of exchange at which the debts were incurred...
...mother did not influence the mortality rate except in the case of the first born, among whom the rate was higher when the mother was under 20 or over...
Meantime, the critics got busy. It was pointed out that $100,000,000 was only 2½% interest on the debt and that there had been no suggestion as to the rate at which France proposes to refund the debt after the expiration of a five-year moratorium which, it was understood, she would demand...
...Churchill has declared that gold resumption shackled England only to present realities-a pointed and adequate retort. Already over ?1,000,000 in gold has been exported from England since assumption of the gold standard, with more to follow in all probability. The British are hoping that the rediscount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York may be reduced -a step which will decrease the U. S. tendency to draw gold from England. In any case, it is not unlikely that 1925 will see a further advance in the rate of the Bank of England, designed to check...