Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven months in 1924-25, Harlan Fiske Stone introduced a period of zealous prosecuting efficiency in the Department of Justice, even going so far as to press for antitrust investigation of Aluminum Co. of America, dominated by the family of his Cabinet colleague, Andrew Mellon. Mr. Stone was soon kicked upstairs to the Supreme Court and law enforcement became a subordinate job of the D. o. J. for the next 14 years until righteous Frank Murphy came along. There has been plenty of kicking in the Department since his appointment last January, but the kicker has been Frank Murphy...
Into Jonkheer de Geer's Cabinet went the mistake-makers, representatives of parties holding 73 of the Lower Chamber's 100 seats. Only die-hard Tories, Communists and Nazis were left out. There were two members of the Christian Historical Party, two Catholics, two Socialists, four independents. Bald, scholarly Johan Willem Albarda, head of the Socialist Party in the Lower Chamber for 14 years, became Minister of Public Works, thus leading the Socialists into a Netherlands Cabinet for the first time despite that party's regular claim to 20% of the country's vote...
...sudden change of heart brought these strange bedfellows together. They were alarmed at the calamities mounting up for The Netherlands' empire-four Cabinet crises in three months, a threat to the rich Netherlands Indies with every increase of Japanese influence in Asia, pressure from Germany, a mounting financial panic at home. Two days after they took office Jonkheer de Geer's gravity was justified. The Netherlands' leading investment banking house closed its doors...
Last week Señor Serrano Suñer won another round when Generalissimo Franco shook up the Cabinet and the Falange, now the only legal political organization in Spain. Already Minister of the Interior, Serrano Suñer became president of the policy-making Falangist Council and acquired the portfolios of Public Order, Sanitation and Health. His most potent rival within the Falange, anti-Italian, conservative Raimundo Fernández Cuesta, lost his jobs as Secretary of the Falange and Minister of Agriculture. An even more important scalp was that of Foreign Minister General Count Francisco...
...Generalissimo did not altogether forget himself. By subordinating the power of the Council of Ministers in cases of emergency he liberalized his power to rule by decree and abolished the office of Vice President. When the purge was over there were only two anti-Serrano Generals in the Cabinet, and they were in non-policy-making positions. Generals José Varela and Juan Yagüe were made Ministers of War and Air, where El Caudillo can keep an eye on them...