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...President announced to news gatherers a Treasury surplus of $390,000,000 for this year. Lest business men should trim their budgets in expectation of another tax cut, Mr. Coolidge hastily added that back taxes collected this year total $350,000,000, that no such large back tax surplus is expected next year, that to cut taxes further would not be "constructive economy...
...dollar. The cost of living was announced as having risen 10% in France within two months. Finance Minister Péret, disheartened at his failure to peg the franc, resigned. Deputies of the Right, theoretically foes of Briand, paradoxically continued to support his Left Cabinet lest the franc collapse. Deputies of the Left, angered at M. Briand's disregard of their views, deserted him. Though M. Briand could and did obtain a vote of confidence by a majority of 114, the situation had become a hopeless tangle. Stabilization of the franc could not be accomplished with the freak support...
...Lest this should seem a modicum of accomplishment to crown the labors of many men for almost a month, there was also drafted, passed and recorded a definition of "potentials of war." This voluminous document contained all the pigs, fogs, birth rates, etc. . . . etc. . . . etc. . . . originally proposed for inclusion under "armaments...
...wrath of France by a raid on French Morocco in which their forces nearly captured Fez. Instead of thereby intimidating France, and?as they appear to have hoped?persuading her to exert pressure upon Spain to grant the Riff autonomy, they instead roused the French to an active fear lest Krim become supreme throughout both French and Spanish Morocco...
When the convicted ringleaders, Chief of Police Emmerich von Nadossy of Budapest and Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, stood up for sentence the courtroom became a pandemonium of sobs, groans and cries. Momentarily the representatives of the Bank of France, the civil plaintiff, experienced a qualm lest their instant lynching impended. Then Chief von Nadossy spoke...