Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After weeks of argument and negotiation(TIME, Sept. 19 et seq.), President Gaston Doumergue signed a decree granting to the U. S. most-of the low tariff rates which U. S. trade enjoyed prior to the recent French tariff revision. The decree will be effective only until such time as a permanent commercial treaty between the two countries can be negotiated, and this depends upon the findings of the U. S. Tariff Commission's enquiry into the possibility of reducing the existing duties on French silk, textiles, perfumes and other deluxe articles. It is not thought possible that...
Recalled by his government at the request of France, Christian Rakovsky, onetime Soviet Ambassador to France, sneaked away from Paris at the crack of dawn for Moscow. In his pocket was his letter of recall, which he was supposed to present, amid polite, if cool, verbosity, to President Gaston Doumergue. But M. Rakovsky did not bother to go near the Elysée Palace, where the President lives, and in order to avoid all farewells, friendly and hostile, he left in an apparent "huff" in an automobile, disappointing many people who went to see him off at the Gare...
Next day President Gaston Doumergue and Marshall Foch received two large Legion detachments. Then the Legion dined President Doumergue. They toasted the late President Wilson. President Doumergue arose and said: "I drink to a great citizen and a great statesman, President Coolidge." Following a speech, he turned abruptly to Commander Savage, dropped over his head a slender cord dangling bright insignia and said: "I create you, Commander Savage, Commander of the Legion of Honor." Pandemonium...
...France past and present." The preface is in two parts, one written by M. Poincare, the other by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. In it Marshals Foch, Joffre, Petain, Lyautey, Franchet d'Esperey, pay tribute to the military virtues of the Commonwealth armies. And there are messages from President Gaston Doumergue, onetime Premier Georges Clemenceau and many another French notable, as well as some poems by the Countess Mathieu de Noailles. The book ends with a drawing by Jean Louis Forain depicting a poilu watching the eastern frontier of France, which is held to emphasize the military and political value...
Such was precisely the indignity to which M. le Président Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic was subjected by a U. S. weekly, the New Yorker. This sophisticated magazine surely possesses at least one employe who knows that M. Doumergue is a bachelor. Yet, last week, the New Yorker, published a full page advertisement of the equally sophisticated monthly Harper's Bazar in which a copy of the Bazar was shown fluttering down from an airplane into the hands of a doll-faced, bobbed-haired woman on a balcony. The caption: THE REAL REASON FOR THE TRANSATLANTIC...