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...degree in 1925; also holding a number of scholarships at Harvard. In 1926, he was appointed reporter of The American Law Institute, and in the same year received the degree of Doctor of Judicial Science from Harvard. During the same year he became associated with the law firm of Gaston, Snow, Saltonstall and Hunt, and worked in general practice of law until 1928, when he was appointed assistant professor of criminal law at Harvard, becoming full professor of law last March...
...four daughters squealed with rapture when nice old President Raymond Poincaré brought them wrist watches, then a great novelty. One day last week an entire moving van full of presents and regalia swung out of the courtyard behind which lives modest, genial M. Le Président Gaston Doumergue. "Notre bon Gastounet va en la Tunisie!" murmured the crowd. But before beloved little Gaston could be off he had to do a final chore...
...French presidential election. Likely successor to President Gaston Doumergue: famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. Other possibilities: Senate President Paul Doumer, Deputies President Ferdinand Buisson, Senators Albert Lebrun, Albert Sarraut and Henri Cheron...
...meet the bachelor President of France (Gaston Doumergue has no "official hostess") at the U. S. Embassy in Paris last week. Ambassador and Mrs. Walter Evans Edge assembled not the impotent dukes and counts of the beau monde but aristocrats of another sort, people whose names stand in France for economic power. Up from Lyons came M. Edmond Gillet, calm, wise, secretive "silk King of France.'' In bustled short and forceful M. Andre Homberg, bald but bewhiskered* president† of the French Line, of the Societe General (one of the largest French banks), high executive of the famed...
...oldster, to a stern radical-Socialist with a dauntless record of success, fussy little President Gaston Doumergue of France handed last week the mandate of a Prime Minister...