Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took another way of expressing his change of tactics. A firm rule of Filipino etiquet is that when a superior places a cigaret between his lips, a subordinate must quickly strike a match to light it for him. President Quezon is accustomed to having half a dozen of his Cabinet members pop up on their feet every time he takes out his cigaret case. Last winter when he wanted to take a military aide to the U. S. with him, he invited a group of West Point-trained Filipino officers to dine. When their U. S. training caused them...
...heart. Claiming his Conservative predecessors had left him a budgetary deficit of $3,734,000 which they "falsely represented" as a surplus of $476,000, "Mitch" started balancing Ontario's budget by cutting his own salary as Premier from $12,000 to $10,000, cut his Cabinet Members from $10,000 to $8,000. Further slashing reduced Ontario Government salaries all along the line, cuts in some cases as much as 50% being carried into the Ontario Liquor Board and Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission. This last claims to be "the capitalist world's largest public purveyor...
...nonsense in this is that Canada's Federal Cabinet alone could take the drastic measures against C. I. O.-such as total exclusion from Canada - which "Mitch" wants to take and talks as if he had taken. In fact Premier Hepburn is not standing and cannot "stand right on top" of C. I. O. unless ultimately he should become Prime Minister of the whole Dominion. Today an estimated 20,000 Ontario toilers have C. I. O. affiliation and are unmolested-but gusty, voracious "Mitch" knows how to sound as if he had eat them alive...
...stockmarkets showed no similar apprehension. Markets in Paris and London declined but never approached a break.* As for the French franc, which sank to 3.53½ cents, lowest since 1926, the logical explanation was the fact that the Chautemps-Bonnet Government has had as little success as the Blum Cabinet in bolstering France's perennial financial position-clearly indicated last week by an inflationary Bank of France statement showing: 1) the highest note circulation in French history and 2) that the Government had once more dipped into central bank reserves...
...demanding fullest apology for the shooting two weeks ago of British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugesson (TIME, Sept. 6). Reports from London indicated that the reply was not worth waiting for: it contained no formal apology, was patently a Japanese attempt to gain time. The British Cabinet was thought likely to send another ''stiff note...