Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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North Carolina. Gastonia, N. C., is named for William Gaston, onetime (1875-76) Massachusetts Governor. There the Manville-Jenckes Co., Pawtucket, R. I., operates the Loray Mills, producing yarn for cord tires. Six months ago the National Textile Workers Union began organizing in this and neighboring mills. Last week they came into the open, called a strike answered by 1,000 Loray workers. They demanded: a $20 minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour (five-day) week, abolition of the "stretch-out" system, a 50% cut in company rents and light rates, recognition of the union. The mill operators refused...
...first time the President of the Republic−just now M. Gaston Doumergue−chose to ignore the inflexible protocol which decrees that the Head of the State does not follow the corpse of a citizen. For the first time the King of the Belgians−tall, chivalrous, heroic Albert I− came to Paris in the simple quality of general, kissed the hand of Mme. La Maréchale Foch, looked for the last time on the Supreme Generalissimo, whose orders even His Majesty had obeyed as a subordinate, and returned to Brussels after only three hours...
Plump and ever smiling Gaston "Gastounet" Doumergue, bachelor President of France, had brutal murderesses on his hands last week and didn't know what to do with them. If any woman deserved the bloody office of the guillotine, here seemed four worthy candidates...
Born. A son, William Alexander, the firstborn, to Mrs. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, onetime actress (the nun in The Miracle), campaigner for President-Reject Alfred E. Smith, niece of onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania; in Manhattan...
...company has no weak points and all the characters help in maintaining the frothy spirit of the play. Mary Nash, in the part of Manuela, coos and poses most alluringly in her tryst with Gaston in what she calls the "seductive surroundings" of his office, and furnishes one of the high spots of the show when she appears in some pyjamas attributed to Pizarro. Melvyn Douglas, playing opposite her, does a thoroughly capable job, and Violet Kemble Cooper, in the role of his scorned nemesis, makes the most of a less productive part. Ferdinand Gottschalk and Henry Stephenson give...