Word: standardist
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Promptly His Majesty asked Gold-Standardist Henri Jaspar to form a Cabinet. M. Jaspar at once tried to get as Finance Minister Belgium's squat old Copper King and No. 1 banker, M. Emile Francqui, stabilizer of the Belgian franc in 1926. Before the Cabinet slate was announced last week, Brussels proletarians heard that it would contain a director of the Liége National Arms Factory, began murmuring against "The Gun Makers' Cabinet...
When that fanatical gold standardist, M. Louis Germain-Martin, agreed to stay on as Finance Minister, government bonds and the franc upped again. The rest of M. Flandin's new Cabinet was composed largely of other holdovers from the Doumergue Cabinet, but he was able to spring one major surprise-Georges Mandel...
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