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...creature was back in its cage, apparently none the worse for wear. In a corner of the laboratory lay the body of another monkey named Matilda, its belly turning blue. Matilda had been "frozen too fast." was dead beyond repair. In the icebox was a third stiff monkey named Gaston, which Dr. Willard did not intend to revive until after a ten-day congealment...
...demand of Ethiopia, the League Council last week called Italy to the mat. Ethiopia was represented by Professor Gaston Jeze of the Paris Sorbonne. To smash him Dictator Benito Mussolini sent to Geneva the hard-bitten Italian naval officer who, during the War, smashed Imperial Austria's network of spies after they had succeeded in blowing up two Italian battleships...
...Chief qualification for a would-be investigator was a letter of recommendation from his Congressman. And under suspicious, eccentric Director William J. Burns, who used to keep photographs of Lenin and Trotsky, like a special rogue's gallery, on his office wall, several ex-convicts and the notorious Gaston B. Means wormed their way on to the Bureau's rolls. Such was the sloppy and demoralized agency which, in the scandalous spring of 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was handed by Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone, who had just succeeded Harry Micajah Daugherty, besmirched Harding crony...
...Frenchman in every 20 holds some sort of Government job. Deputies are elected for four years, can throw out any cabinet at will and neither hell nor high water can budge them. The emergency government of kindly old Gaston Doumergue tried valiantly to pare Government expenditures and failed (TIME, Nov. 19). Knowing what their country was up against, shrewd French investors sent a thin trickle of capital abroad. Then week after week as the condition of French business, the size of the probable deficit, became more & more apparent, the gold flow grew. Last week it was a torrent...
...Paris court found Charles A. L. Audry, nephew of France's onetime Premier Gaston Doumergue, guilty of swindling, gave him a suspended sentence of 26 months in jail. For the same deal onetime Minister of Commerce Louis Serre paid a fine of $250 and two accomplices were jailed. Swindlers Audry, Serre & friends sold $1,980,000 worth of stock which had been entrusted to them, fooled the owners by paying false dividends...