Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun appealed to gay and popular former President Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue to emerge from retirement and come forward as a "nonpolitical" Premier, he declined, pleading his age (70). Chunky, canny Edouard Herriot was next best choice, but though untouched by the Stavisky scandal himself, he is president of the Radical Socialist Party which has been accused of accepting campaign contributions from Swindler Stavisky. Edouard Daladier therefore got the call, accepted. Though unwilling to make them, Gaston Doumergue suggested that drastic constitutional changes must be made in French Parliamentary practice...
...Gaston Elcus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will give a concort of violin music at Eliot House this evening at 7.45 o'clock. The concert will be preceded by a House dinner at 6.45 o'clock. Members of the House may invite guests to the performance, but owing to limited space in the dining room, it will be impossible to have guests at the dinner...
...selected to control Treasury news was Herbert E. Gaston, onetime night editor of the defunct New York World, who helped found the liberal Federated Press service as a medium for labor news. Even the fact that an experienced and liberal minded confrere had been given the job was not enough to make the correspondents believe Mr. Morgenthau's disavowal of censorship. Always quick to resent such tactics the correspondents promptly expressed their feelings in a letter to President Roosevelt at Warm Springs: "We . . . formally protest against the rigid restrictions imposed by Mr. Morgenthau. . . . The Secretary's order includes...
Francois Maurice Chevalier Madeliene Ann Dvorak Gaston Bibi Edward Everett Horton Joe Arthur Pierson Suzanne Mirna Gombell Pedro Douglas Dunebrille...
...There's a Lucky Guy." The camera approaches a street singer in an alley in Paris, then several other malcontents who eye their compatriots enviously, and finally Francois who carries a sign on his chest advertising his employer, Professor Gaston Bibi, who can patch up marital troubles. Francois is looking at a guide from the Prias Tours Company; he longs to be in that man's place. He is standing before the great Mr. Prias begging for a position; he leaves with the slight consolation that he may hear from the firm when it has an opening. Before he realizes...