Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other period of U. S. history, there is a dearth of Elders. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's job disqualifies him. Ex-President Herbert Hoover remains too closely identified with his wing of the Republican Party to seem Olympian when he sounds off. His Cabinet as a whole are out of public sight and mind...
...personages of the day, domestic or foreign, are impersonated and lampooned with impunity. Appearing in New York this season are Adolf Hitlers, Benito Mussolinis, Joseph Stalins. In other seasons "appearances" have been made by King George V and Queen Mary, the Duke of Windsor, President & Mrs. Roosevelt, the Roosevelt Cabinet, the Supreme Court...
Biggest event of Villard's boyhood took place on September 8, 1883, near Helena, Mont., when in the presence of Indians, Civil War generals, Cabinet officers, editors, barons, ambassadors and financiers, his father drove the spike that completed the Northern Pacific. Three months later his father was bankrupt. Biggest event of Villard's manhood was the collapse of Wilsonian liberalism. Between these two catastrophes he studied in Germany, took over his father's paper, the New York Evening Post, when he was 25, fought for woman suffrage and good government, backed Wilson so ardently that disillusion...
...With the Cabinet split on a fundamental issue, with more newspapers than ever striking out against the Government, with more M. P.s than ever distrustful of British official policy, there were also more rumors than ever of a change in the Government itself. Former Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden still talked of a national Cabinet. Mr. Chamberlain was represented as wanting to have a Laborite in the Government, but the Labor Party wanted no part of the Prime Minister...
...Fascist bigwigs. Permanent members now are Il Duce and the three surviving Quadrumvirs of the March on Rome-Italo Balbo, Marshal Emilio De Bono, Count Cesare Maria de Vecchi. (Michele Bianchi, the fourth, died in 1930.) Other members are the President of the Senate and 22 more, from Cabinet members to the commander-in-chief of the Fascist Militia...