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...heirs of Frenchmen who bought a share at par and tucked it away in the family stocking when Napoleon I founded the Bank of France, the return on investment is thus at the rate of some 30%. Such shareholders would never have fired Governor Moret. They, too. gloomed as brisk Premier Flandin popped in as the new Governor of the Bank of France last week bland M. Jean Tannery. Since 1925 and 1926 respectively, M. Jean Tannery has been dextrously managing those curious magicians' hats of French State finance, La Caisse...
...This is an American expedition! We are not chiselers!" excitedly shouted the leader of one group, Farmer Hans Dietz, a brisk little peasant with acres 60 miles south of Chicago. "Mr. Hitler is no more important than any American politician! We are Americans, first and last, and would go back to the Saar to vote even if the Kaiser was on his throne. There is nothing un-American about this...
...kept flying!", these leaders, as zero hour approached, hauled down their own Nazi banners from German Front headquarters, did not even wait to be threatened by British, Italian, Dutch and Swedish troops of the League's Plebiscite Army (TIME, Dec. 31). As Commander-in-Chief of this Army, brisk Major General John E. S. Brind, D.S.O., had nothing but routine on his hands last week...
This to the Anglo-U. S. diplomats in London seemed a dirty trick. To the French it appealed: i) as prudent propaganda useful in promoting sales to Japan; 2) as a brisk reminder that in 1914 the naval ratio of the Great Powers was: Great Britain 5; France 2.2; the U. S. 2.2; Japan 1.3; and Italy...
...headline: "The Revolt Against Crime." He clapped a hat over his thinning brown hair, slipped into a raincoat, picked up his umbrella, strode out of the Forum office and joined the late afternoon crowds hurrying along Manhattan's Lexington Avenue. There was plenty of time for his customary brisk jaunt through Central Park before dinner...