Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blum who cried: "Rather than grant such powers, I would prefer that this country had a king!" No less than six French Premiers who have asked for "full powers" were fought on this issue by MM. Blum & Auriol. In 1934 they accused that mild political tabby Premier Gaston ''Papa" Doumergue, who died last week (see p. 28), of asking for full powers ''as the opening wedge to Fascist Dictatorship!" Last week when Orator Blum asked exactly these powers for his Government he cried: "We are backed by the masses of this country. . . . Too often have...
Paul W. Cherington; Bayard S. Clark; Eugene V. Clark; Paul C. Clough; Gaston Coblentz; Usher P. Coolidge; Alexander R. Cowper; John E. Crane; Joseph R. Crump; William N. Dale; Vinton A. Dearing; Joseph J. Dodge; Edmund J. Doering, 2d.; James R. Dowd; Herbert M. Dowsett, Jr.; Charles A. Dulles; Charles E. Ennis; John J. Fernsler...
...Brown University Charles Evans Hughes III won the $150 Gaston Prize in oratory with a speech on The United States and the Next War, was thereby entitled to deliver one of the student addresses at Commencement this June, as were his father and grandfather, the Chief Justice, at their Brown Commencements...
...Union City, Tenn. a gaunt man staggered into an all-night café to get a bowl of chili, was jailed for drunkenness. Bailed out next afternoon he was found to be Methodist William Gilbert Gaston, field secretary of the Tennessee Anti-Saloon League. Leaguer Gaston objected that he had been framed by Wets, protested: "I would rather be dead than have such a thing occur." Militant Methodist Bishop Horace Mellard Dubose, the Tennessee League's president, regretfully proclaimed : "There is nothing we can do but sever him from the League. . . . The terrible curse of liquor...
...name, but with an abundance of shrewdness through his former work as a magician and hypnotist and was soon able to influence Macfadden in nearly every action. He played upon Mr. Macfadden's love of publicity. ... It is my firm belief that Mr. Oursler conceived and conspired with Gaston B. Means and others, the plan to take and hold for ransom the Lindbergh child (without intent to kill or harm it), only for publicity for Oursler and Mr. Macfadden. . . . "I feel sure that it was Mr. Oursler's intention, with his great influence over Mr. Macfadden-which...