The U. S. dollar was adopted by all transatlantic steamship lines in Paris as the sole standard for determining passage rates. Even British companies have forsaken the pound, and the Government-subsidized French line, La Compagnie Generate Transatlantique, refused to quote prices in francs to French people.
Louis Dorbon, quondam Under Secretary to President Millerand when he was Minister of War, was detained by the U. S. Immigration authorities when he tried to reenter the U. S. M. Dorbon is a well known book-seller and it was...
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