Word: cabineted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibitor Volstead had no hand in advancing Mr. Youngquist to the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Almost entirely responsible for this appointment was Mr. Youngquist's new chief, U. S. Attorney-General William DeWitt Mitchell, also of Minnesota. For five months President Hoover and his astute Attorney-General had cast about for a successor to Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt. Candidates there were galore from every State but the President's requirements were high: a thoroughgoing Dry, possessed of a sound legal mind and ample industry, beyond the influence of front-page publicity. Such a man Mr. Mitchell told President...
Straightway came statements from the Cabinet heads of the Army and the Navy, each supporting his officer...
Heavily in debt last week was Albert Bacon Fall, bribe-taking Secretary of the Interior under President Harding, first convicted Cabinet felon in U. S. history. He still owed Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny $100,000 (exclusive of interest) on what he still insists was "a friendly loan" made eight years ago. He owed the U. S. another $100,000-the fine imposed last week after a District of Columbia Supreme Court jury had found the Doheny "loan" corrupt, a bribe. Additional debt to the U. S.: one year of his life in prison. Mr. Fall's assets, both...
There were not enough chairs so some of the Cabinet sat on camp stools. They had met in the plain, business-like office of Australia's new Labor Prime Minister, quiet; vigorous James Henry Scullin (TIME, Nov. 5). After a long, tense session last week they jolted all Australia by announcing suspension of compulsory military training...
...sting-minded as any hornet last week was Edouard Daladier, stocky, pugnacious president of the Radical Socialist party, who almost managed to form a cabinet fortnight ago (TIME...