Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summers, James Gaston...
...newspaper called for an immediate French declaration of war against Britain. Marshal Petain, proclaiming a day of national mourning for the dead, declared: "The bloody attack . . . striking only at the civilian population, will arouse general indignation and take on the character of a national catastrophe." These sentiments Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye echoed in Washington to a totally unimpressed Sumner Welles, who called the raid "legitimate" and who three days before had said that the U.S. would recognize Free French New Caledonia. The British seemed quite sure that the sad and sensible people of Occupied France would understand and approve what...
...been informed of this traffic. Already there were signs that the U.S. State Department, which has long given Vichy the benefit of enormous doubts, was undergoing a change of heart. Under Secretary Sumner Welles summoned Vichy's Ambassador Gaston Henri-Haye for a stern talk, later denied that the Free French seizure of St. Pierre and Miquelon (TIME, Jan. 5) would cause the U.S. to invoke the Declaration of Havana. He implied that, although the Free French could be told to quit the islands while relations with Vichy remained tense, the U.S. had no idea of telling them...
...general manager of the Department of Street Railways (TiME, Aug. 14, 1939), despairing of the 500 new motor coaches he needs, is thinking of refurbishing 125 ancient trolleys, all of which have rusted in storage barns for at least five years. (Detroit is also the scene of an Alphonse & Gaston fight between bus lines and railroads over who is to service Henry Ford's vast Willow Run bomber plant, scheduled to employ 100.000 men 20 miles from town...
...Washington's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brother Gaston announced a "sweeping national campaign" for wartime prohibition. He gave alcohol a large share of the blame for the fall of France and the Pearl Harbor tragedy, concluded hopefully that "America should soon be dry again, and next time Prohibition will come to stay as a success." Congressional mimeograph machines, by courtesy of Guyer, scattered his message over...