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...keeps his religion in his womenfolks' name. His wife, daughter and sister are members of First Church; he is not. When he learned last spring that the church emblem had the place of honor, he swung into action and insisted that the two flags be reversed. Pastor Lewis Gaston Leary refused to make the change. So Chief Stites made it himself. Dr. Leary changed the flags right back. Last week the governing body of his congregation backed his stand that the "most sacred symbol of our religion should be second to nothing." Said Dr. Leary, whose...
Seventy-two-year-old Captain Edward Page Gaston of the New York National Guard, founder of the rum-hating New Vigilantes, strong advocate of the repatriation of the body of Pocahontas, onetime believer that "Fascism is what this country needs," noted that Hitler has avoided bombing British breweries. Said he: "[Hitler] knows that liquor is his best ally...
After 14 days the Camelots faked a telephone call ordering Daudet's release, and the warden bade him a friendly, regretful farewell. Daudet fled to Belgium, where he lived in what he described as "formidable hilarity" for two and a half years. Finally President Gaston Doumergue, overlooking the continuing daily Daudet tirades in L'Action, pardoned...
...Laval. Now the U.S. asked Robert to sign on the dotted line all over again. It looked simple-behind Admiral Hoover and Sam Reber stood the massed strength of five nearby U.S. naval bases, strung between Trinidad and Puerto Rico. In Washington this week French Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye said his Government (i.e., Laval) had not told him to protest...
Summers, James Gaston...