Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woodford and Havock incidents apparently were the last straw. Backed to the hilt by France, two long and secret meetings were held in Downing Street attended by key Cabinet Ministers, whereupon came the announcement...
...full meeting of the British Cabinet, unusual for the summer, will be held this week to discuss the Mediterranean and Chinese crises...
Thus, when Andrew Mellon stepped into the Cabinet he was beyond question one of the great men of U. S. industry and finance. Many great lawyers have been members of the Cabinet but he was the first great financier-industrialist ever to hold such a post. Hence a sentimental public, once it knew who he was, fostered the legend that he was "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton...
...Tokyo last week, Cabinet Ministers scuttled in & out of Emperor Hirohito's moat-encircled palace. The assent of the Son of Heaven was required to dozens of decisions, most important of all to the drastic decision of the military high command to ship Japan's entire regular army -some 260,000 men-across the sea to China...
...runs the highly simplified government of Rightist Spain is no larger than the very elementary requirements of a military dictatorship. Francisco Franco, one of the few Spaniards on the peninsula who does not take two hours off for lunch, does most of his own work. He has no formal cabinet, but is helped by a handful of more or less obscure administrators...