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...available resources- whether such resources would be applied for the purposes of recovery as well as for reasonable payment on the debt owed to the citizens of the United States or for purposes of unproductive nationalistic expenditure. ..." In short, France, which has spent millions for armaments but not a sou on its debt in the last two years, cannot expect to be let off easy...
...attorney of the Court of Appeal. White-chinned old Henri Chéron, Minister of Justice, promptly removed good Friend Hurlaux who struck an attitude and attempted to swallow poison. He was rushed to a hospital where he signed a statement swearing that he had never accepted a single sou from handsome Alex. Lawyers for Stavisky's principal agent, Secretary Gilbert Romanigno, are Raymond Hubert, one of the smartest pleaders in Paris, and a M. Pinganaud. Paris papers have hinted for weeks that both know more about the case than anyone in the city. Early in the week police...
Last week pressure once more hit the pound. Bear speculators on the Continent, tasting blood from their successful mauling of the dollar, turned once more to sterling. The pound gradually receded from 85 francs to 83¾ with the stanch British bolstering it every time it dropped a sou. Then came a day when the pound dropped and the British sold francs, again and again, 10,000,000 at a time-and still the pound dropped. In two days trading the pound fell two more francs...
...tired of fighting his bouncing old Philistine of a father, candy tycoon of Springfield, Ohio; tired of trying unsuccessfully to get any more money out of him. He had been through the War, had been married and divorced. Last night he had spent his last spare sou. Not for any tragic reason but because there seemed to be nothing else to do he planned to step out of his hired boat into the water of the little Riviera harbor...
...handicap, if such indeed it can honestly be termed, is far offset by two notable advantages. Today, as Freshmen, they will find men's minds quickened to thought and imagination by the problems of the present crisis; to the eager student such an atmosphere is well worth the small sou of temporary, financial restriction. Four years hence, as alumni, the probability is that they will face a much kinder and less turbulent world than their brethren of the past two graduating classes...