The Chamber was not in session last week, but French Deputies meeting on the boulevards over long amber goblets of Pernod asked each other who was ce petit bonhomme Tourenq who was raising such a riot in the Ministry of Finance. Dust from the Oustric scandal (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930) was still in the air. What, if anything, did small Tourenq know?
Sad-eyed Jean Tourenq has been an employe of the Treasury for 28 of his 46 years. During the War he served in the trenches and won two citations for gallantry in action. He...
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