Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usually Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who makes a clean breast in the House of Commons of shortcomings of his Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante), but last week this penitent part-a role which homely Squire Baldwin has made singularly popular in the United Kingdom-was taken by the Minister for the Coordination of Defense, Sir Thomas Hobart Inskip...
Loud protestations members of the Cabinet of Socialist Premier Leon Blum that they did not expect to have to devalue the franc further were followed last week by a thumping event which firmed the franc on international exchange, showed that London is standing with Paris in friendly entente. The event: British bankers loaned $250,000,000 at 3½%, repayable within one year, to the French State railways. "I categorically deny," keynoted French Finance Minister Vincent Auriol, "that our monetary unit will be permitted to move lower...
Tokyo was tense last week with citizens in ignorance of behind-the-scenes doings in the grim Oriental tug-of-war be tween Army and Party leaders which upset the Hirota Cabinet (TIME, Feb.1...
Efforts to form a new Cabinet by more or less mild General Kazushige Ugaki, retired, were abandoned after bodyguards of the Premier-Designate had been obliged to fight off last week an especially resolute group of would-be assassins, assumed by the panicky populace to be "regular Army assassins." Only hasty decision at midnight by the Emperor's advisers to have the Son-of-Heaven ask a onetime War Minister and stanch Army man, General Senjuro Hayashi, to take over the job of Cabinetmaking somewhat slackened tension, by no means ended the crisis...
...Washington at latest reports Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito was uncertain whether or not he was being called home to become Foreign Minister, as correspondents were cabling from Tokyo. The Army and Navy, besides supplying Cabinet timber for their departments, were reported to want a general as Foreign Minister, at least temporarily, and the High Command was believed to be sitting with Premier-Designate Hayashi, dictating which Japanese politicians would be permitted to be Ministers...