Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days to do it in. Next week, he announced, he would go to Charleston, board the fast cruiser Indianapolis and probably speed under forced draft all the way to Buenos Aires to make a speech at the opening session of the Pan-American Peace Conference. Meantime he saw his Cabinet, consulted Budget Director Bell, for a Budget has to be made up before Congress convenes on Jan. 5. To questions of newshawks about new Cabinet members, he answered by saying all that would have to wait. He found time, however, to dedicate a stone bench in Rock Creek Park...
...Washington, President Roosevelt conferred with his Cabinet, then declined to intervene. Secretary Perkins declared that Mediator McGrady would yet solve the "regular" West Coast strike, dismissed the Eastern strike as that of a "rump organization." Other highlights...
...Even more acceptable, however, to us thin-blooded moderns for whom the only racy element in politics is verbal abuse, is the sight of a presidential candidate coming down from his parlor to exchange black eyes with the maligner of his backwoods wife, or, when president, firing his whole cabinet because they and their wives whisper unkind things about his favorite Peggy O'Neal. The career of this strong-minded young man is this essence of the picture: her service as inn-keeper's daughter rendered to Andrew Jackson and his Rachel, and to the brilliant states rights squabblers, Danial...
...ruthless pan-Arab Major General Bakri Sidki Pasha to effect his putsch. He kept them circling over Bagdad for two hours, perfunctorily bombarded the Ministry Offices, and then issued a communique hanging around the neck of the 24-year-old King Ghazi responsibility for the change of Cabinet which by then had taken place...
Humiliations of Chiang: To make clear how bold Premier Chiang & Cabinet had actually become on his 50th birthday last week required a review of the supreme humiliations to which the Nanking Government has even lately submitted. Not to mention Japan for the moment, it was humiliating that Admiral William Harrison Standley, Chief of U. S. Naval Operations, found it necessary to report officially in 1934 "China continues in a state of disruption, with internal strife, including Communist and bandit activities, engaging the wholesale attention of Chinese Government Forces." At this time 30,000 Japanese soldiers in North China had thoroughly...