Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paunchy President Gaston Doumergue of France received last week at the Elysee a lean, taut-waisted, owlishly spectacled Jap, Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado...
Pierre Paul Henri Gaston Doumergue (1924-to the present), 63, "first Protestant and lucky 13th President of France...
...French statesmen are more genuinely beloved. While his fellows clawed and slashed their bitter tscandal-strewn way to power, Gaston Doumergue disarmed his enemies and heartened his friends with a smile, proved by daily application his notable if not transcendent abilities, and was happily wafted up to the Presidency...
...sooner had "Gaston" Caillaux sat down than numerous "Alfonses" sprang to their feet and hurled diverse protests. Amid wild confusion M. Leon Blum, fiery Socialist, bitter foe of Finance Minister Caillaux and Premier Briand, poured forth a tirade in which he tore M. Caillaux's proposals to tatters, pleaded for a direct levy on capital to save the franc and pay all debts, hurled awful warnings of "enslavement by foreign credits...
...parallel of "Alfonse and Gaston" became perfect when M. Caillaux, conscious that M. Blum had dealt a vicious blow to his policies, yet retained his impeccable politeness to the point of congratulating M. Blum upon the oratorical perfection of his noble and sonorous periods...