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Synthol. Professor Franz Fischer of Mulheim-Ruhr takes this same wood alcohol and builds up a petroleum-like fuel...
...Raymond Poincaré has been called the greatest of French militarists. There are those who have even dubbed him the arch plotter of the World War.† There is no question that it was he, as Premier (1922-24), who sent French troops to occupy the Ruhr. Yet last week M. Poincare, once again created Premier (TIME, Aug. 2), began to clip and prune the French Army, in the interest of national economy to save the franc...
...malcontents no option between scattering and suffering body bruises. They scattered, reassembled to hoot when he had passed safely into the Chamber. From M. Raymond Poincaré, the Wartime president of France (1913-20), the post-War Premier (1922-24) who sought to collect German reparations by occupying the Ruhr, only one policy can be expected-direct, courageous action along "Capitalistic" lines. As he ascended the Tribune all the Communist Deputies and most of the Socialists leaped to their feet, stamping, screaming, hurling oaths and an occasional book, shoe, inkstand. . . . For almost five minutes absolute pandemonium reigned. From the Tribune...
...strategy of M. Caillaux is evident from a glance at the list of Ministers. They are predominantly Left and Centrist demagogues, offset by General Guillaumat, no politician but a stern and confidence-inspiring commander during the French occupation of the Ruhr...
...Died. August Thyssen, 86, patriarch of Ruhr industrial barons, contemporary of the late Hugo Stinnes and the late Alfred Krupp, self-made amasser of $100,000,000; at his castle, Lindsborg, near Muehlheim...