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...book's author, Gaston B. Means, was once a Secret Service investigator for the Department of Justice. Born in North Carolina about 45 years ago, he began his career as a detective at ten when he rode about the county eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He entered the William J. Burns ("Eye That Never Sleeps") Detective Agency in 1910 as an undercover man. He served Captain Boy-Ed, German spy, for $1,000 per week. In 1917 he was tried for murdering a client, Mrs. Maude C. King; was acquitted. When in 1921 Burns became chief...
When President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister Andre Tardieu, both looking rather dour, returned to Paris last week after a flying trip to southwestern France, they could well appreciate why the tricolor banners flying from the walls of the gayest city were tied with black bands. For in, the region whence they had come new torrents of rain had followed thg tragic deluge of last fortnight (TIME, March 17), impeding rescue work, causing new catastrophes. Whole villages had been vacated, and in the city of Bordeaux the populace watched fearfully the rise of the mighty River Garonne, swollen by downpours...
...courteous gesture President Gaston Doumergue asked former President and Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, "Savior of the Franc," to form a cabinet. He replied that, although recovered from his prostate trouble (TIME, Dec. 23), he has not the strength to re-enter politics just yet. As a matter of course the President's next play in the old fashioned game of Parliamentary euchre was to call on M. Tardieu to form Cabinet No. 20. It took him all the rest of the week to do it, and there was no guarantee that 20 would...
Certainly the tables were turned last week. President Gaston Doumergue of France called to the Prime Ministry a man who thereafter made not a single move without consulting Briand?Camille Chautemps...
Cinema. An endless tape bound round and round the world is the U. S. cinema film. Last week Londoners flocked to see Masks of the Devil while Paris and Berlin gaped simultaneously at The Broadway Melody. In the French chamber arose Deputy Gaston Gerard last week to exclaim: "In the domain of the cinema we have become virtual tributaries to American productions. Americans already hail [the talkies] as a vehicle for spreading the English language over the world. It is an immense and implacable effort for intellectual colonization that threatens...