Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attentive mien last week while His Majesty King George notably triumphed over his speech impediment, read off without a single mispronounced word and with few hesitations the Speech from the Throne, thus opened the first Parliament of the new reign. The 18-minute speech, composed as usual by the Cabinet, promised that His Majesty's Government will: press on with Rearmament; speed air raid precautions; inaugurate penal law reforms; regulate the coal mining, electric power, milk and whitefish industries ; combat stock frauds; add judges to unjam the divorce courts; publicize the health services; expand housing; regulate the working conditions...
...part of their activity the Yardling dozen will supervise Brooks work within the Yard, act as a junior advisory council, and cooperate with the various other committees of the Association, thus forming a nucleus of new men who gradually reach cabinet rank...
Such a question can only be answered by a show of naked force. The French Cabinet last week answered it by ordering So first line French war planes to leave southern France, squadron after squadron, beginning October 27, for extensive maneuvers over all French possessions in Africa, including the Sahara Desert and French Somaliland as well as North Africa. After these war birds of Paris and the moderate Left have scared the Fascist daylights out of as much of French Africa as possible, the most potent bombers will fly on to impress Madagascar and finally French Indo-China...
...Chautemps Cabinet further showed it meant business last week by vesting dictatorial powers for the governing of North Africa in a close friend of the Premier, onetime Premier Albert Sarraut. ''You are instructed." M. Sarraut was told. "to present a survey of the colonial situation to the Cabinet as soon as possible and to outline the measures of control you intend to take...
...Cabinet figured it had acted none too soon when news came that Moroccan natives 1,000 strong had risen at Khemisset with knives and guns, were besieging the French garrison which had barricaded itself. Ten planes followed by troops from Rabat forced the Insurrectionists to submit and a French court-martial working at top speed sentenced 70 arrested persons to prison terms of from one to ten years, restored quiet...