Word: peret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merger at four or five times its actual value. Came the Wall Street crash and World Depression. Banque Adam, Oustric et Cie and other Oustric companies failed for a total of $56,000,000. Among the many roars of protest from bilked investors it was loudly charged that Raoul Peret, Minister of Justice, had been receiving secret sums from the Oustric bank. Prime Minister Tardieu defended his minister in the Chamber, was booted out of power by the Senate (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week the Oustric case grew hotter & hotter. Clement Moret, governor of the Bank of France, testified that...
...faced MM. Les Senateurs backed by the prestige of a vote of confidence he had just won in the Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 64. The worst that could fairly be said against his Government was that he recently accepted the resignation of Minister of Justice Raoul Peret when it appeared that many years ago M. Peret was the attorney of M. Albert Oustric, French swindler jailed last month. Senator René Héry of the Democratic Left who led the attack on M. Tardieu adroitly made the most of this...
...Shaggy-headed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand paid an official visit of protest to the German Embassy in Paris. In Berlin French Ambassador Pierre de Margerie paid another to German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius. At a meeting of French War veterans at Lencloitre, near Poitiers, French Minister of Justice Raoul Peret cried...
Foreign Affairs: Aristide Briand* Justice: Raoul Peret* Finance: Paul Reynaud* Budget: Louis Germain-Martin * War: Andre Maginot* Marine: J. L. Dumesnil* Merchant Marine: Louis Rollin* Air: Laurent Eynac* Public Instruction: Pierre Marraud* Public Works: Georges Pernot* Commerce: Pierre Etienne Flandin* Agriculture: Fernand David* Colonies: François Pietri* Telegraphs: Andre Mallarme* Labor: Pierre Laval* Pensions: Champetier de Ribes...