Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this crucial hour His Majesty had need of all the cunning which carried him originally to the Ethiopian Throne. Close to the astute ear of Haile Selassie in Geneva were his famed Yankee, Everett Colson, long "the Brain Trust of Addis Ababa." and his wily French lawyer, Professor Gaston Jeze. The jig might be almost up for Ethiopia, but the Great Powers were going to be stung by her Emperor in whatever vital spots he could reach...
...little wisdom from the chaff, hopes her children will profit from her experience. She does not regret paying $4,000 for her pink satin sheets because, "as any woman knows, forgetful, restful sleep will take out wrinkles." She is still defiant about having been tricked by the notorious Gaston B. Means into paying him $100,000 for the return of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. And she has told her children: "If you start paying blackmail you will never stop. . . . Fight...
...pact dates from the "Save-France Cabinet" formed after the Stavisky bloodshed by beloved onetime President Gaston ("Papa Gastounet") Doumergue. Suddenly recalled by duty from retirement to the dirty job of Premier, "Papa" Doumergue chose as his Foreign Minister, venerable Louis Barthou, who proceeded to surprise all Europe by showing even more energy than such young sprigs as Anthony Eden...
...Paris fortnight ago the Frenchman who got 20 years for peaching on Nurse Cavell to the Germans, M. George Gaston Quien, was out of jail, having served 17 years. While a prisoner he fell heir to a large fortune and his sentence was commuted. Last week, fashionably dressed but prematurely white-haired and prison-pale, M. Quien was bustling about with his lawyers. "My demand is for a new trial and complete exoneration," he said. "This is a case of mistaken identity. It was not I but another man who disclosed to the Germans the activities of Nurse Cavell...
...effect dared the Chamber and Senate to say whether they prefer it to his policy of peace at Ethiopia's expense. Resolved not to fight, students of the Paris Law Faculty demonstrated in behalf of Italy and against Ethiopia's French International Law Professor Gaston Jeze (TIME, Aug. 12 & Sept. 16), with such vigor that his classes had to be canceled. Then the Law Faculty had to be closed, "until the students could insure order...