Word: cabineted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victor automatic orthophonic yesterday. Here's a picture It plays twelve records of various sizes, reproduces them perfectly, rejects them when you don't like one, and plays one a dozen times if you like it especially. "All this, in a very neat mahogany cabinet for $365! The former price of such an instrument, and not a very good one at that...
Seldom has a more terrific tempest been brewed in any teapot than that which perturbed all Germany last week, when the Reichstag convened for its Winter Session. The question at issue transcended Cabinet lines. The chancellor, Socialist Hermann Müller, would have to vote "Nein!" while his Defense Minister, Nationalist General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete...
Even cynics sympathized with Peasant Juliu Maniu as he left the Royal Palace. More than a "tender but lovely hope" is needed to keep his Cabinet afloat with a temporarily unbalancable budget. That could be done by former Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano because he had behind him the great fiscal tycoons of Rumania. The new peasant Cabinet must not only worry through without such assistance, but must wage next month a national Parliamentary campaign. Even best wishers of Prime Minister Maniu were forced to admit, last week, that his little Ship of State is tossed on perilous seas...
Should President Herbert Hoover appoint Mrs. Hoover to Cabinet office that would be news...
Last week the new President of China, Chiang Kaishek, appointed Mrs. Chiang to sit on the Committee of Yuans, which may be likened to a Cabinet of provincial Governors...