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...selected to control Treasury news was Herbert E. Gaston, onetime night editor of the defunct New York World, who helped found the liberal Federated Press service as a medium for labor news. Even the fact that an experienced and liberal minded confrere had been given the job was not enough to make the correspondents believe Mr. Morgenthau's disavowal of censorship. Always quick to resent such tactics the correspondents promptly expressed their feelings in a letter to President Roosevelt at Warm Springs: "We . . . formally protest against the rigid restrictions imposed by Mr. Morgenthau. . . . The Secretary's order includes...
Francois Maurice Chevalier Madeliene Ann Dvorak Gaston Bibi Edward Everett Horton Joe Arthur Pierson Suzanne Mirna Gombell Pedro Douglas Dunebrille...
...There's a Lucky Guy." The camera approaches a street singer in an alley in Paris, then several other malcontents who eye their compatriots enviously, and finally Francois who carries a sign on his chest advertising his employer, Professor Gaston Bibi, who can patch up marital troubles. Francois is looking at a guide from the Prias Tours Company; he longs to be in that man's place. He is standing before the great Mr. Prias begging for a position; he leaves with the slight consolation that he may hear from the firm when it has an opening. Before he realizes...
...formalities of the Moley resignation were conducted in an Alphonse & Gaston atmosphere at Hyde Park. Wrote Dr. Moley to the President: "The regret that I shall otherwise experience at severing my official tie with your administration is absent on account of the fact that this new work permits me not only to further the ideals common to us both but to continue to enjoy friendly association with you. ... I pledge you my active and continued support of the ideals to which you have given such a hopeful and auspicious realization. ... I regard this present opportunity to edit a national weekly...
...Though commonly called "The Armorer's Daughter," Ferronnière actually refers to the fillet worn around the lady's head. Since 1925 when the painting was exhaustively examined, Louvre authorities have never claimed that their Belle, was an original Leonardo. Wrote Curator Gaston Rouchés: "That does not make much difference when one does not take the commercial view. The important thing is that the picture is beautiful...