Word: cabineted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following a decision of the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet to turn over to the Foreign Students Committee the use of the Ralph Hamilton Shepard Memorial Room in the Phillips Brooks House, the executive committee of the Council plans to redecorate the room and establish headquarters there for foreign students. The rearrangement of the room will be made with a view to embodying all the qualities of a club: Periodicals and books from most of the foreign nations will be kept on the shelves, and tea will be served on certain afternoons. While taking this step in realizing a headquarters...
...Into the East Room, curtained, flower-banked, walked President Hoover alone. Down into a metal casket set near the wall he gazed for silent sorrowful minutes into the face of his dead friend and Secretary of War, James William Good. After the President returned, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, Senators, Representatives, army officers, foreign envoys stood by for the simple funeral service. The President sat motionless, with bowed head, in a damask-covered gilt chair. His eyes followed the casket as it was borne away from the White House to the beat of muffled drums for its last journey...
...Tardieu Cabinet was challenged in the French Chamber by Deputies of the Right?including onetime President Millerand?who charged that it is premature to think of returning the Saar to Germany now, even at a good price. With instant decision, One-Timer Tardieu demanded a vote of confidence, risked losing the Prime Ministry and much fun, won decisively by a majority of 93 votes...
...deathless, rampant patriotism, printed such reckless denouncements of even highest government officials when he suspected them of pacifism, that at first some thought him mad. In the end. all France saw him as the incarnate Will to Victory. In 1917 the allied reverses and the fall of the Painleve Cabinet left President Raymond Poincare an alternative which Clemenceau described thus: "It was a case of Caillaux [pacifist] or myself. Had Poincare sent for Caillaux he would have had me arrested and made peace with Germany. He sent for me. I decided to have Caillaux arrested and to go on with...
...denied that His Majesty has contemplated any change, or asked the Prime Minister to tender his resignation in favor of the Duke of Alba. The great fitness of the Duke to head the Cabinet is acknowledged by all. The present Prime Minister -would never stand...