Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted, cheered by the whole Right-Centre, Right and a sprinkling of others. Tediously the vote went on & on. When it was over, 45 minutes more were taken to count it, check and double-check. The count: Paul Doumer 442 Aristide Briand 401 Jean Hennessy 15 Marcel Cachin 10 Gaston Doumergue 7 Paul Painlevé 2 Scattered 20 Blank 4 Total 901 Thus on the first ballot nobody got a majority of over half the votes, the necessary minimum to elect. But M. Doumer had failed to win by only seven votes. M. Briand by 48. The result...
...Senate, and Brandy Distiller Jean ("***") Hennessy, candidates of the Opposition parties. M. Doumer was practically sure of the Senate's vote, was fairly sure of election against any one but Briand. As a candidate, *** Hennessy looked hopeless. Anti-Briand strategists talked seriously of drafting plump, smiling President Gaston Doumergue for a second term. "Le bon Gastounet" issued no I-do-not-choose but remained as coyly silent as any Coolidge...
...degree in 1925; also holding a number of scholarships at Harvard. In 1926, he was appointed reporter of The American Law Institute, and in the same year received the degree of Doctor of Judicial Science from Harvard. During the same year he became associated with the law firm of Gaston, Snow, Saltonstall and Hunt, and worked in general practice of law until 1928, when he was appointed assistant professor of criminal law at Harvard, becoming full professor of law last March...
...four daughters squealed with rapture when nice old President Raymond Poincaré brought them wrist watches, then a great novelty. One day last week an entire moving van full of presents and regalia swung out of the courtyard behind which lives modest, genial M. Le Président Gaston Doumergue. "Notre bon Gastounet va en la Tunisie!" murmured the crowd. But before beloved little Gaston could be off he had to do a final chore...
...French presidential election. Likely successor to President Gaston Doumergue: famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. Other possibilities: Senate President Paul Doumer, Deputies President Ferdinand Buisson, Senators Albert Lebrun, Albert Sarraut and Henri Cheron...