Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abroad and negotiate with a foreign state would automatically create a "Constitutional Crisis," with alarmed British politicians Hell-bent for abdication. The status of the King of the Belgians is such that last week brown-haired young Leopold III, unaccompanied by any of the Belgian Cabinet, arrived in London to negotiate in person with the British Government vital issues as to Belgium's role and defenses in case of another...
...those who were culpable . . . [officials who] had supinely allowed the burning of churches, private houses, offices and workshops before the eyes of a passive and impotent public. . . . The regime was that of Parliamentarianism gone mad. . . . The extremists of the Popular Front knew well how to maintain themselves without the Cabinet. The latter was nothing more than a pliable instrument, the mere plaything of the real power...
Because of the outstanding number of volunteer workers supplied to meet the growing demands of Boston and Cambridge Settlement Houses, Charles L. Burwell '39, Edmond L. Charbonnier '39, and Irving S. Michelman '39 were nominated in the first contest for cabinet positions ever held by the organization...
...plaintive query: "I don't know when the administration became averse to age." He cited the late Attorney-General Walsh, Justice Brandeis, and the elderly Senators Glass, Borah, Norris and Johnson as men who have not "failed to keep in touch with modern affairs." Roosevelt's offer of a cabinet post to seventy-nine-year old Carter Glass is evidence that age and liberalism are not always separate in the President's mind. The administration is in reality seeking some very particular new blood, and not the rather theoretical advantages of young blood in the abstract. Wheeler appropriately stressed this...
Marvin Mclntyre, the President's secretary, wanted the job but was too intimate with shipping lobbyists. Finally the President turned to his most effective and trusted extra-Cabinet friend, red-headed Joe Kennedy. Every night for two weeks a White House limousine met Joe Kennedy as he landed from Manhattan at the Washington Airport, whisked him off to be cajoled by that persuasive pleader, Franklin Roosevelt. As a final objection to being given the job, reluctant Joe Kennedy revealed that he has 1,100 shares of Todd Shipbuilding Corp. stock. Would not that prevent his choice? The President...