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Last February when the first crisis of the Stavisky case had Frenchmen rioting in the streets, Gaston Doumergue picked white-chinned old Henry Cheron for his Minister of Justice with the reputed remark, "He is a funny old bore, but at least he is absolutely honest...
That set-to in Marseilles was small but significant. The political temper of France was stretched no less tight throughout the Republic. And that same night Premier Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue sat down before a microphone to give another of his Rooseveltian broadcasts. Shrewdly, his first move was to attack the Reds. Cried the Premier...
Paris, Oct. 7--Overwhelming defeat for the Socialist and Communist "common front" and a complete victory for Gaston Doumergue's National Union Government were indicated today by returns from France's cantonal elections...
...seat was hardly warm before he began a spectacular career as an investigator. He introduced the resolution to dig into Department of Justice dirt, acted as special prosecutor for the investigation committee, discovered the bootlegging connections of the Ohio Gang, put the names of Jesse Smith, Roxie Stimson and Gaston B. Means in headlines, forced President Coolidge to accept Attorney General Daugherty's resignation. Further probing into the Alien Property Custodian's office, he sent Custodian Thomas Woodnut Miller to the penitentiary. In retaliation, Daugherty agents dug up a case in Montana in which Senator Wheeler was accused...
...question should be put officially on ice for ten years by a non-aggression pact between the two countries. This was duly signed (TIME. Feb. 4). It profoundly vexed France and sent M. Barthou, who had just come in as Foreign Minister in the National Union Cabinet of Premier Gaston Doumergue, off on his alliance-mending tour of Europe (see below...