Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autumn of 1934 when Paul van Zeeland and a Yale friend attended an important banking conference, the latter scribbled the just-arrived score of a football game on a card and slipped it to the former-Yale 7; Princeton 0. Back from van Zeeland came the re-joinder-"Belgian Cabinet: Princeton 2; Yale 0." Cabinet Minister of Transport Vicomte Charles de Bus de Warnaffe was once a Princeton graduate student too. Mr. van Zeeland's brother and his nephew both studied at Princeton. He has promised that as soon as his elder son graduates from Louvain he shall study...
...Paul van Zeeland practiced law briefly, soon went to the Banque Nationale de Belgique, where he rose rapidly to be secretary, director, vice governor. The switch from state banking, generally considered a government service, to active politics was painless. Paul van Zeeland was made Minister-without-Portfolio in the Cabinet of Count Charles de Broqueville in 1934, with the special job of deflating Belgium's dangerously inflated currency. Parliament would not accept many of the reforms he suggested. Paul van Zeeland resigned in November, pulling the Broqueville Cabinet down with him. In March 1935, Paul van Zeeland became Premier...
Parliamentary government replaced feudalism in Japan in 1890. The new system creaked along until 1932 when Japanese Army officers put an end to party government by killing Ki Inukai, the last party Premier. The Japanese Army has dominated every Tokyo Cabinet since the outbreak of the Manchurian War (September...
...police in Spain, won the title of "the most hated man in Spain" for ordering Civil Guards to fire on the students. No monarchist, he was placed on the retired list in the early years of the republic, was in and out of favor depending on whether the Cabinet was Leftist or Rightist at the time...
Handlebar-mustached Senjuro Hayashi, leader of the "Gold Braid Cabinet" of generals and admirals which took office last January, was Japan's No. 1 exponent of military aggressiveness. In four short months the gold braids outraged the civilian party politicians, high-handedly suspended the Diet's lower house, forced an election, lost it but insisted on staying in office (TIME...