Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seat of what looked like a full-size International Conference of the sort he loved so well as British Prime Minister. Once more, and perhaps for the last time, the imposing Locarno Room of the Foreign Office echoed to his noble Scottish burr. Mr. MacDonald today holds the British Cabinet sinecure of Lord President of the Council at $10,000 yearly, is slated to be raised to the peerage soon and retire on a pension of $10,000. Severe eye trouble caused him to strain with visible pain last week as he read a gracious speech void of importance...
Today so far as the pragmatic politicians who make up Premier Stoyadinovich's Cabinet can see, France has wavered much too far to the Left, carrying her ally Czechoslovakia almost into Soviet arms, Germany can be expected at any time to seize the Teutonic provinces of Czechoslovakia, the League of Nations has been reduced to inconsequence, and its doughty champion, little Dr. Benes, is a splendid sap who still believes in Democracy...
...Barcelona, the capital of more or less autonomous Catalonia (through which supplies for Madrid enter Spain in a steady stream), local President Luis Companys umpired a heroic political dogfight in which the Cabinet of this one of the Spains fell. At last Barcelona's quarreling hot anarchists & communists and warmed-over socialists & republicans grew so helplessly embroiled that most of them seemed relieved when President Companys agreed last week to add the Premiership of Catalonia temporarily to his other offices and worries. Dispatches reaching Valencia said that what had chiefly been accomplished at Barcelona was to "oust the anarchists...
Much that only Soviet statesmen knew while the Moscow trials of Old Bolsheviks for "Trotskyism" were being prepared (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante) came out last week as the Russian Cabinet or Council of People's Commissars issued its annual spring orders to the entire nation, a batch running to thousands of words...
...Commissars, for example, told the average Soviet freight train at what average speed it is going to run this year, decreed such things as how many gallons of milk per week the Cabinet plans that the average Russian cow shall give. On Jan. 1, 1937 there was nationwide Communist celebration of the State's announcements that every producing commissariat except that for Timber had "overfulfilled its production quota for 1936"-this quota having been set under the Second Five-Year Plan, which now has only eight more months to run. Statistics released last week with the Cabinet...