Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime Minister Chamberlain next showed the King a list of his new Cabinet and sub-Cabinet down to the most obscure, unpaid assistant Government whip. At 5 p. m. that same day every one of these was summoned to the Palace to take his oath of office in strict order of precedence. A meeting of the Privy Council (His Majesty's advisers, including the whole Cabinet) was then held...
Swashbuckling Premier General Senjuro Hayashi, head of Japan's "gold braid" Cabinet of generals and admirals, summarily dissolved the Diet two months ago because the Diet's Minseito (majority) & Seijukai (minority) parties truculently refused to pass one of his pet measures...
...voters, remained in office (TIME, May 10). But he had reckoned without the political parties who, after much Japanese skirmishing, got round this week to passing a motion of no-confidence in the Hayashi Government. This finally convinced the Premier that he was unpopular. He called a final Cabinet meeting; sadly proceeded with his ministers to Emperor Hirohito, resigned...
...carefully documented and persuasive authenticity. Far more successful than Robert Taylor's rigidly uninspired performance as the hero are those of Robert McWade, Frank Conroy and Sidney Blackmer respectively as Dewey, McKinley and Roosevelt I. Good shot: Roosevelt polishing up his phrase about the Big Stick*at a Cabinet meeting, which he leaves to "go for a ride with Alice...
...Catholic has ever been elected President of the U. S. Only two Catholics have ever been appointed Chief Justice (Roger B. Taney and Edward D. White) and only one sits on the U. S. Supreme Court today (Pierce Butler). Only Catholic in Episcopalian Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet is Postmaster General Farley. Only Catholic ever to be nominated for President by a major party was Alfred Emanuel Smith. Many a U. S. Catholic still believes that it was for his Catholicism alone, and not his Wetness and his Bowery accent, that Al Smith was politically crucified. Certainly the whispering campaign...