Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Around the White House he moved at a lope when not lounging in the lobby of the executive offices. He referred to the President as "the boss," called others, including Cabinet members, by their first names and chatted in equally friendly fashion with Ambassadors and messenger boys. Although he had a dinner suit to wear on dress occasions he incorrigibly chewed gum no matter how elegant his surroundings...
...broad grin in the middle of an armchair. Over whiskeys & sodas from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m., the King, restless and flushed with anger, tells Lord Beaverbrook, hastily summoned from a proposed trip to Arizona, of his resentment at Prime Minister Baldwin's summoning of the Cabinet to interfere in His Majesty's proposed marriage to twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 7). A break obviously is near in the news censorship self-imposed by the British Newspaper Proprietors' Association. Vehemently, Edward VIII urges his right to marry Mrs. Simpson upon Publisher Beaverbrook whose fingers...
...actually put him up to it. Behind Politician Baldwin the proverbially canny Yorkshiremen discern his famed churchy wife, Lucy. They know that the Prime Minister was furious three weeks ago- when Edward VIII told the jobless of South Wales that more must be done for them than the Cabinet thinks the country can afford. They are willing to bet that Mrs. Baldwin will never forgive the king for inviting her to a dinner at which she had to sit down with "that woman" Mrs. Simpson. As presses begin to clatter, the provincial Yorkshire Post historically spits out the gag which...
...Civil strife. There could have been war with England as well as with the rebellious South. Once, when Earl Russell assured Adams that there would be no intervention, that England's policy would remain unchanged, Adams was unaware that a few hours previously Russell had proposed intervention to a cabinet which rejected his proposal. Henry Adams records that although the Minister never thought Earl Russell was a liar, he had to act as though he were...
...have yet to record an undoubted error . . . I declared in the heat of the American struggle that Jefferson Davis had made a nation . . . I did not perceive the gross impropriety of such an utterance from a Cabinet Minister of a power allied in blood and language and bound to loyal neutrality...