Word: cabinet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such last week was the promotion of Patrick Jay Hurley from the sub-Cabinet to the Cabinet, to replace Iowa's James William Good, deceased. His appointment by President Hoover approximated cabinet recognition for the no longer Solid-South, First Oklahoman to sit in a cabinet, Secretary Hurley is a Roman Catholic. Washington, familiar with him for less than a year, predicted two things of his incumbency at the War Department: 1) Though the youngest of the Cabinet (46), he will not be a mere Yes-Man. He brims with ideas of his own, will keep his chief busier...
...Witnessed an appalling sight as extreme Left-wing Laborites revolted from their party and voted with the Conservative Opposition for the first time in history, thus nearly toppling down the Labor Cabinet on the eve of the Hoover-MacDonald Naval Parley...
...plot of the piece concerns the momentary romantic lapse of a British Cabinet Minister, Mr. Maddock, who has so closely applied himself to his career that he has forgotten how to dream. His own marriage and his elder daughter's were arranged solely for his political advantage...
...such pandemonium as might be caused in Congress by barely hinting that the U. S. cannot prosper without cutting the interest rate on Liberty Bonds. "Explain! Explain!" roared Conservatives at pallid, crippled Chancellor Snowden; but for two whole days he maintained impassive silence. Horrid inference: the avowedly Socialist Labor Cabinet harbors hopes of someday tampering even with sacrosanct War Bonds...
...lawyer by trade, like Stresemann, and one of his protegés in the moderate People's party, Dr. Curtius entered the German cabinet in 1926, served hand-in-glove with the great foreign minister until his death. Whilst Stresemann strove for peace by diplomacy, Curtius, as Minister of Economic Affairs, patched up the first post-War commercial treaty between France and Germany. He is a low tariff man, a quiet optimist, a vigorous advocate of more and still more loans from abroad, "loans which fertilize German industry as the waters of the Nile fertilize the parched soil of Egypt...