Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bomber on a reported Russian freighter unloading at Cartagena seemed to prove Britain's assertion that Russia was supplying tanks, artillery and planes to Spain's Red Government, but practically none of this material last week reached the Madrid front. President Manual Azana of Spain and other Cabinet officers had fled fortnight ago to Barcelona and this week the London Times indicated that Premier Largo Caballero's jig was up, thus: "Great Britain now considers with less hesitation the prospect of recognizing the Government of Franco inasmuch as the Madrid Government has brusquely rejected the British offer...
...decision of the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet to employ the annual four hundred dollar scholarship for the benefit of the Grenfell Mission abandons one excellent policy only to fulfill another. In past years the Chairman of the Foreign Student Committee has been given the money with the understanding that upon his return from his summer travels he will help the foreign students here in the University. That plan, in their own words, has been overwhelmingly successful for the individuals who received the scholarship. But the second aspect, in spite of honest effort, has failed for the simple reason that...
...willing to pay for the privilege of service that runs from the hard physical labor of unloading provisions to curing Eskimo diseases. Although the new plan is frankly an experiment, and if it fails, the disposition of the fund will go back into the hands of the Cabinet; still it is no longer ninety-eight per cent one way and two the other. The nickel now has both a "heads" and a "tails...
...time of their collapse, a studious and cultivated man for whom retirement held no terrors. He discussed Grant's letter with his wife, wired back: "I cannot." But Grant had made such a mess of his first appointments that he was determined to have Fish in the Cabinet, sent his nomination to the Senate and said he had not received the New Yorker's refusal until too late. Fish then agreed to serve until after Congress adjourned. But as he plunged into work, at his little office in the Orphan Asylum on 14th Street, with as many...
...friends even after their dishonesty was proved, Grant blocked the impeachment of Secretary of War William W. Belknap after the Secretary had been convicted of accepting bribes, and during the Whiskey Ring exposure, when his confidential secretary Babcock was on trial, only the stubborn interference of Fish and other Cabinet officers prevented Grant from rushing to St. Louis to defend his disgraceful assistant in person...