Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the next four years he had various field commands and in 1906 he became orderly officer to General Joffre, then commander of the 6th Infantry Division in Paris. In 1912, when Joffre was promoted to the Supreme War Council, Gamelin was chosen as Joffre's chef de cabinet, or military secretary. During this time the French General Staff was discussing (but only discussing) the possibility of a German violation of Belgian neutrality to attack France. Gamelin made a study of it and wrote out a defense of such an attack. That was the germ of Joffre...
...backgrounds are considered, the financial power of Tory M.P.s looks towering. Lord Wimborne, a director of Barclays Bank until 1939 and once a Tory M.P. himself, has two brothers, a son, and a nephew on Conservative benches, while his son-in-law's brother-in-law is a Cabinet minister, and his brother-in-law's brother-in-law, the same Viscount Wolmer, has represented Aldershot for 21 years...
This week, however, ear-to-the-ground Neville Chamberlain told the House that Cabinet Ministers, forbidden since 1906 to hold directorships in public companies, would henceforth be obliged to give up also their directorships in private companies (unincorporated companies not required to issue annual reports). It was revealed that the hardest hit Minister, shipping tycoon Lord President of the Council Viscount Runciman, had already given up six important private directorships...
Setting something of a record for legislation in France, the French Cabinet one day last week decreed 80 new laws ranging from a 402-article "Code of the French Family" to a prescription of the death penalty for ten forms of espionage...
...Chamber of Deputies until June 1942, or two years beyond the four-year term for which the Deputies were elected in 1936. Only precedent for prolonging the Chamber occurred in 1918, during the World War, but even so there was no exact parallel. Then the Chamber, rather than the Cabinet, voted itself one more year in office...