Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rene Lacoste (world's tennis champion) stood by while the Davis Cup drawings for 1928 were being made in Paris, heard President Gaston Doumergue of France say: "I am going to nominate you Ambassador to Washington [the U. S.]. You are the only man we have to counterbalance Lindbergh...
Married. Miss Rosamond Pinchot, 23, actress (The Miracle; now with the Reinhardt Co.), niece of onetime Governor of Pennsylvania Gifford Pinchot; to William Gaston, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Colonel William Alexander Gaston, potent Boston lawyer, onetime (1902) Demo- cratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts; at West Chester...
...years the right to export capital and invest it abroad has been denied to Frenchmen by the law of April 3, 1918. Evasions, numerous, have always been severely punished when detected. Last week this intolerable, emergency damaging of the flow of capital was ended by plump, jovial President Gaston Doumergue who signed a decree lifting the capital embargo...
Paternally he listened while they explained that the Bishop of Urgel, his co-Suzerain, has recently appointed not Andorrans but Spaniards to carry the Andorra mails. Here was surely an abuse that stank to Heaven! Would not good Prince Gaston move the hard heart of the haughty Prince-Bishop...
Last week good Prince Gaston temporized, promised to investigate, tickled the coarse palates of the humble hillmen with a dinner of choice viands and choicer champagnes...