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...Gaston Doumergue's career has been simple. Born at Aigues-Vives in Card 70 years ago, he served in the colonial service in Cochin-China, first entered the Chamber of Deputies in 1893. In the past 40 years he has popped in & out of various Cabinet posts, was Premier for a brief period (December 1913-May 1914). He first became an international figure in 1924. Amid a cyclone of charges and counter-charges Alexandre Millerand was accused of having interfered in party affairs, was forced to resign the Presidency. Politicians turned instinctively to the round little fellow...
...side lines, as President of France, Gaston Doumergue acquired a vast disgust for the French political game of which he had been a part for so long. As head of the State, he had a chance for the first time in a generation to appreciate the layman's point of view as governments fell, week after week, month after month, with nothing done. But. like most Frenchmen, honest "Gastounet" is at heart extremely conservative. He may adopt such simple superficial reforms as commend themselves to his cautious Gallic mind. But anyone who expects him to remake the legislative...
Soberly, above the gilded angels on the Tribune, white-haired Gaston Doumergue faced the Chamber of Deputies last week. Disregarding Communist bellowings of "Assassin! Assassin!" he declared...
When sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun appealed to gay and popular former President Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue to emerge from retirement and come forward as a "nonpolitical" Premier, he declined, pleading his age (70). Chunky, canny Edouard Herriot was next best choice, but though untouched by the Stavisky scandal himself, he is president of the Radical Socialist Party which has been accused of accepting campaign contributions from Swindler Stavisky. Edouard Daladier therefore got the call, accepted. Though unwilling to make them, Gaston Doumergue suggested that drastic constitutional changes must be made in French Parliamentary practice...
...Gaston Elcus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will give a concort of violin music at Eliot House this evening at 7.45 o'clock. The concert will be preceded by a House dinner at 6.45 o'clock. Members of the House may invite guests to the performance, but owing to limited space in the dining room, it will be impossible to have guests at the dinner...