Word: cabineted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every week on the Texas is full of interesting activities and almost every week brings some unusually important visitor. During the past 12 months three Presidents, a large number of cabinet members and foreign diplomats have visited the Texas. Just about sunset last Wednesday, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous Flying Colonel, came aboard. The Colonel had dinner with Admiral Wiley, Commander-in-chief of the U.S. Fleet, and after dinner attended the movies. When the Colonel appeared at the movies 'All Hands' gave him a good hand. The Colonel waved his hand but begged off when asked...
...President Hoover's first cabinet meeting assembled eleven men besides himself. The eleventh was Vice President Curtis who will attend Cabinet meetings as did Calvin Coolidge when Vice President. Most of the new members were somewhat self conscious when they appeared. Walter F. Brown the Postmaster General came in breezily having been a friend of President Harding's and a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Vice President Curtis was as much at his ease as anyone, was greeted familiarly by all. Of the old Cabinet members, Secretary Mellon slipped in by a side door as usual, Secretary Davis came...
...Harding Administration. "It would be difficult to find two years of peacetime history in all the record of our republic that were marked with more important and far-reaching accomplishments. From my position as President of the Senate, and in my attendance upon the sessions of the Cabinet, I thus came into possession of a very wide knowledge of the details of the Government...
...stroke of ill-luck, the one really pressing matter that came before the new Cabinet as soon as it was formed was a matter in the province of the one new Cabinet member who had not reached Washington?the new Secretary of State, Colonel Stimson. There was little doubt that the leaders of the Mexican revolt (see p. 27) timed their uprising in order to catch the new administration off its guard in hope that its support of the existent regime in Mexico would be weak...
President Hoover, working out his sub-Cabinet appointments last week, began on the four air officers-Assistant Secretary of War (F. Trubee Davison), Second. Assistant Postmaster General (Warren I. Glover), Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics (William P. MacCracken Jr.). The President decided to retain Messrs. Davison and Glover and to accept resignations from Messrs. Warner and MacCracken. For Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, the President soon chose David Sinton Ingalls of Cleveland, a perfect complement for the Air Secretary of War. They are about the same age, enthusiasts, good friends. Mr. Davison founded the naval...