Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest thing in the sculpture room was the late Gaston Lachaise's tiptoeing, steatopygous, nude, Standing Woman; one of the smallest was still the reductio ad absurdum of John B. Flannagan's solid, amusingly diminutive Elephant...
...called Assistant Secretary Herbert Gaston: to coordinate the activities of Treasury's 10,578 Coast Guardsmen, 750 Customs agents, 250 Secret Service men, 250 income-tax inspectors, 1,250 alcohol inspectors. Tall, worn Mr. Gaston is an ex-newspaperman who lost out at 50 (when the old New York World expired), came back as Henry Morgenthau's trusted man Friday. Because he clamped down on departmental publicity in 1933, he rates as a stuffed shirt in the ribald, nude-daubed Treasury press room. But columnists and other "think piece" composers who value the long view applaud his emergence...
...Herbert Gaston's chief job within a job is to direct the Coast Guard on peace patrol. Along with the Navy (which last week began to recommission 116 ancient destroyers for patrol), the Coast Guard will range the Atlantic Coast and 200 miles...
...deny that he and John Hanes and Herbert Gaston and anyone else from the Treasury who might be invited to the Capitol, were forbidden to recommend any tax revision...
...deny that he and John Hanes and Herbert Gaston and anyone else from the Treasury who might be invited to the Capitol, were forbidden to recommend any tax revision...