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...fear. The Deputies of France saw the franc tumble down to 3.39½¢ at Manhattan, a world record for all time, and were at last stricken with the fear that if they refused again to vote adequate taxes, as they have refused for months (TIME, March 15, et ante), the franc might go the way of the pre-Dawes mark...
...large group of Yale graduates have often suggested that we adopt the English system. Here, however, with a less diversified student body, and division into College. Common Freshman Year Sheffild Scientific School, and with our daily chapel and our prospering Yale Dining Hall, with an open-house fraternity system, et al, we have not yet reached the state turn here eyes eastward. Yale News, April...
...week opened, Finance Minister Peret commenced to juggle in earnest with the incredibly complicated fiscal problems bequeathed to him by Premier Briand's last two Finance Ministers, MM. Loucheur and Doumer (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.). From the additional taxes voted during the Dou-mer régime, M. Péret figured that he might derive 1,600,000,000 francs. He estimated that by still further drastic governmental economies he could save 500,000,000 francs. There remained a deficit variously estimated at between 3 and 4 billion francs. To meet it, M. Péret proposed...
Stresemann's Apologia. Speaking for the Government, Foreign Minister Stresemann reviewed at length the whole course of the recent negotiations at Geneva (TIME, March 22 et seq.) which resulted in the adjournment of the League without admitting Germany. "One thing the German delegation achieved was that, in all the discussion about where the blame for failure lay, nobody blamed Germany. I know how many telegrams advising us to leave Geneva were sent from home. I think we might have harvested very cheap laurels by coming home. But by remaining we won recognition of our blamelessness...
...produce grand and light opera, would present first in Manhattan, then in other important cities, several French novelties which have been given lately in Paris and Monte Carlo in addition to such standard works as Carmen, Louise, Salome, Thais, Faust, Manon, Zaza, Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Romeo et Juliette and Scuppho...