Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Third Republic of France, in 69 years of sturdy life, has had 14 Presidents. Of these only five have served their full seven-year terms-Emile Loubet, Armand Falliéres, Raymond Poincaré, Gaston Dou-mergue. Jules Grévy. Six have resigned. Adolphe Thiers, Marshal MacMahon and Alexandre Millerand quit under political pressure. Jules Grévy tried a second term, left when his son-in-law was caught trafficking in Legion of Honor decorations. Casimir Périer got disgusted with his job. Paul Deschanel went crazy, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train...
...proved that measles is a virus disease, is now working on a measles serum, recently developed a new modern type of smallpox vaccination. He works in the laboratory of the late famed Biologist Elie Metchnikoff, who received a Nobel Prize in 1908 for his work on immunity. > Professor Gaston Ramon, square-built, square-bearded son of a farmer, who lives surrounded by 400 horses at the Institute's annex in Garches. He makes tremendous quantities of serums against diphtheria, bubonic plague, tetanus and other dread diseases. These serums are sold all over the world. Professor Ramon is famed...
...Died. Gaston Bullock Means, 59, notorious national rascal, onetime Secret Service operator and private detective; of a heart attack; in Springfield, Mo., where he had been taken from Leavenworth Penitentiary for an operation. Born in North Carolina, Gaston Means at ten rode around the country eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate...
...president will be Edward C. K. Read '40; Ibis, Henry R. Hayes, Jr. '40; Narhtex, Elliot L. Richardson '41; Treasurer. Benjamin Ferris '40; Advertising Manager, George O. Clark, Jr. '40; Circulation Manager, Gaston Coblentz '40. These men will take office officially at the beginning of the new year...
Engaged. Katherine Gibbs ("Kay") Francis Gaston Meehan MacKenna, 33, cinemactress (White Angel, First Lady, Mary Stevens M.D.); to Raven Erik Barnekow, 41, minor German baron; in Hollywood...