Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ornate South American coffin of Gus Gennerich lay in state. Over it a Lutheran minister read the second funeral service for the Presidential bodyguard who dropped dead in Buenos Aires. Among the 300 listeners seated on gilt chairs were George and Augustus Gutrie, bereaved brother-in-law and nephew, Cabinet members and their ladies, Vice President & Mrs. Garner, Mrs. Roosevelt, the President himself, sunburned, leaner, refreshed from 28 days absence, by 12,000 miles to Argentina and back...
...James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, who has been in scandalous eclipse since his resignation from the Cabinet after the Budget leak (TIME, June 1 et ante), is nevertheless a Privy Councilor for life and last week was out in full regalia with the 300-odd other Privy Councilors in the Throne Room of St. James's Palace to hear King George VI read his accession address: "... I take up the heavy task. . . . My first act ... to confer on [Edward] a dukedom. . . . He will henceforth be known as His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor. ... I declare to you my adherence...
...beloved figure of Queen Mary." The speech also contained that little throb of penitence which has for years been the trademark of every "crisis speech" by Stanley Baldwin. A democratic Prime Minister must undertake no great matter without informing at least three or four principal members of the British Cabinet. Of his approach to Edward VIII on this gravest issue, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons: "I consulted-I am ashamed to say it, but they have forgiven me-none of my colleagues...
...unnamed European nation because, 1) he is not allowed to marry a beautiful commoner named Madame Xandra St. Aurlon (Helen Vinson), and 2) because a powerful group wants to get its hands on the government. In this close parallel to the Simpson case, the powerful group is not a Cabinet, but two unscrupulous capitalists who covet oil concessions. They are busy installing a puppet dictator as Regis leaves for Zurich to meet Madame St. Aurlon. Feeling responsible for his loss of the throne, she goes into hiding. Regis then becomes a playboy. He cracks up in airplane races, drives...
Central figure in the show is the U. S. "Secretary of Entertainment" in an unnamed President's Cabinet. Impersonated by old Joe Whitehead, one of Madison Street's great grey-derby-&-checked-veit comics 30 years ago, this character is a veteran ham determined to spend lots of government money on actors in spite of the "Secretary of the Budget," Al Smith, the Liberty League and an unrealistically tight-fisted committee of U. S. Senators. Very much on the awful, side of O Say Can You Sing? are some of the unbelievably corn-fed wisecracks which Librettists...