Word: cabineteer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...NEVILLE BOSSES THE CABINET: MINISTERS MUST REPORT DAILY" headlined the Referee, with considerable truth, as certain statesmen in Whitehall admitted off the record to friends this week. "Mr. Neville Chamberlain," continued the Referee, "is running the Cabinet as though it were a board meeting with himself as Managing Director of Britain Ltd. And the Cabinet members don't like...
...Both Baldwin and MacDonald, the two former Premiers, regarded themselves as Chairmen of the Cabinet Committee. They gave advice, smoothed out difficulties-and let the Department heads get on with the job. They never interfered with the internal affairs of a Department...
...Government not to any general feeling that he would be a good Chancellor of the Exchequer but to the fact that he heads a minute political party, the "Simonite Liberals," whose support the Prime Minister needs in order to maintain the "National" (i.e., coalition) character of his Cabinet. Similarly, Mr. Eden continues at the Foreign Office chiefly because Conservative Party electioneers think the British public still believe he is the shining Galahad of the League of Nations-although on the quiet at Geneva Mr. Eden has become a chronic misser of tricks for the League. Realistic Neville Chamberlain, his friends...
Down but far from out, Socialist Blum had reappeared in the Chautemps Cabinet as Vice Premier and Minister of State, and back with him were 21 erstwhile Blum Cabinet members, including Yvon Delbos who continues as Foreign Minister. The one Socialist thrown to the Senate wolves was Blum's droopy-eyed Finance Minister Vincent Auriol who made such an utter mess of devaluation, but even shifty Auriol was included in the Chautemps Cabinet, as Minister of Justice. To get somebody who is of the Left and yet knows something about handling the intricacies of State finance, Premier Chautemps...
...upon a career which, until he entered politics, ran with exceptional smoothness in the groove of barrister. Brilliant, he first was called to the bar at the age of 19. Son of an established Liberal political family, he became Mayor of Tours after the War, slipped into his first Cabinet post under Herriot in 1924. On two subsequent occasions he was Premier for short periods, thrust forward by more prominent statesmen as a safe Middle-of-the-Roader. now again finds himself Premier for much the same reason...