Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jobs, new jobs for old hands abounded, as Franklin Roosevelt began to make over his Government to wartime specifications. Changes extended from the Cabinet (see p. 9) down to bureaus where the urgencies of peace-in-war abruptly supplanted the routines of peace. Great was the demand for lean fellows, hungry for action. Under the new faces which went to Washington appeared hardly a single paunch...
...away from the terror of bombs. Thence each morning he drove into London in a Chrysler, waved swiftly through traffic by bobbies who spotted the large "CD" disk (Corps Diplomatique) on the radiator-grille. Every day he had to see at least one member of Britain's War Cabinet. Meanwhile, there was the job of sending the nine Kennedy children* back to the U. S., three at a time and arranging to reopen their home at Bronxville, N. Y. (The other Kennedy homes, in Palm Beach, Hyannis Port, Mass., are closed...
Hard-headed Nazis scarcely expected Britain and France to accept peace offers, hoped rather to maneuver into a position where they would seem, both in German and in neutral eyes, guilty of prolonging war. The first response from London was disquieting. The War Cabinet met, decided: 1) to base Britain's policy on the assumption that the war will last three years or more; 2) to instruct all Government departments to make plans on that assumption; 3) to expand production, especially munitions, to meet the demand implicit in that policy; 4) to maintain export trade in the interests...
...Robert Anthony Eden served in World War I as a captain, was decorated for valor (Military Cross), came out a Brigade Major, remained a major in the Territorials. In the Cabinet and out his chief characteristics were his impeccable clothes and his championship of meeting force with force. Early last week, just before World War II seemed sure, Major Eden put on his King's Royal Rifle Corps uniform, posed in front of a tent (see cut), hurried off to his battalion guarding London's East End docks. But before Great Britain fired its first shot and practically...
...Jane Dahlman Ickes, 26, whom he married secretly in Ireland in May 1938, three years after his first wife died in an automobile accident; a 7-pound, 11-ounce son, her first child, his fourth; in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Secretary Ickes had his parental jitters in an emergency Cabinet meeting in Washington...