Word: cabinet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make Philip Snowden, the Crippled Chancellor, hero of the pan-European money-squabble at The Hague (TIME, Aug. 12 to Sept. 9), look more gnome-like than ever as he stumped on his canes into No. 10 Downing St. for one of the most special Cabinet meetings in recent British history. Gnome-like also, or like a maimed goodwife from the fairy books, looked motherly Margaret ("Aunt Maggie") Bondfield, the Secretary of Labor, who had to be helped from her motor by chauffeur and nurse, having broken her ankle on vacation...
...last Cabinet meeting prior to the first visit of a British Prime Minister to the U. S. Everyone in London (and many throughout England*) felt the moment keenly. People hovered about Downing Street. What could properly be called the World Press was on tiptoes and the telephone. The U. S. Ambassador, Charles Gates Dawes, arrived (without pipe, for the spotlight was not on him) to say good-bye and make friendly suggestions. Also came (impossible in a less civilized country) the leader of the Opposition, Stanley Baldwin, the ousted Conservative chief saying "good-bye-good luck" to the installed Labor...
Basically the Heimwehr demanded as the only alternative to revolution, that the Austrian Constitution be amended to strengthen the authority of the Cabinet and curb the influence of the potent Socialist element in Vienna. Since a two-thirds majority in Parliament is needed to amend the Constitution and since Socialist Deputies number over one-third, their opposition has always blocked all such amendments. Last week the Heimwehr's truculent Reichspost-official mouthpiece of the strongest man in Austria, stern, bald, beak-nosed onetime Chancellor Ignaz Seipel-proposed a bullying solution of the Constitutional issue: Let Parliament be convened...
Worried by such Heimwehr-Schutzbund snarls, members of Chancellor Streeruwitz's cabinet finally announced that they would soon submit to Parliament proposals to change the Austrian Constitution in a way which might placate the reactionary Heimwehr yet be mild enough to win the grudging approval of the Socialist Schutzbund. Nettled by such temporizing, Heimwehr authorities in Vienna issued a sensational "Last Warning to Politicians"-a flat ultimatum to the Government of Chancellor Streeruwitz that a revolution will be staged within a fortnight unless he consents to the Heimwehr scheme of jamming through their Constitutional amendment...
...Greatest of these is at Singer, near Glasgow, Scotland. Chief U. S. plants are the one at Elizabethport, N. J., and a cabinet factory at South Bend...