Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the fact that the Minister of Education, M. Anatole de Monzie, was insulted when he visited the Bolshevik pavilion in the imposition Internationale les Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes (TIME, June 15), President Gaston Doumergue decided to "chance...
After due reflection the Senate agreed, passed the bill by 273 to 11 with numerous abstentions. Next day, President Gaston Doumergue affixed his signature to the measure and it forthwith became the law of France...
...greatest living men and women"-to wit: Writer: Octavus Roy Cohen Statesman: Oscar W. Underwood Soldier: General Robert Lee Bullard Professorial Leader: Dr. George TI. Denny. Captain of Industry: George Gordon Crawford Artist: Roderick D. Mackenzie- Distinguished Citizen: Helen Keller Actress: Lois Wilson* (cinema) Athlete: Joe Sewell* (Cleveland shortstop) Gaston B. Means, famed supersleuth of the Daugherty Department of Justice, star witness of the all-star oil investigations last year, many times tried, surrendered at Washington and was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary (his first time in jail) to serve two years, following failure to rid himself of a conviction...
Their Majesties called upon bachelor President Gaston Doumergue at the Élysée and remained to luncheon. Among those present were Premier Painlevé, Foreign Minister Briand, Minister of Marine Borel, ex-President and Mme. Raymond Poincaré. Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux was tactfully absent. The King afterwards invested Premier Painlevé with the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order...
President Gaston Doumergue did not, contrary to expectation, invite M. Briand to take another shot at Ministry-making; instead, he called for the second time upon ex-Premier Paul Painleve who, during the crisis, had been botanizing in the Bois de Boulogne, who subsequently succeeded in forming a Cabinet...