Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This confronted the President with a formidable threat to his Cabinet. He had an answer to it at press conference last week. His answer was to announce with gusto that his new Attorney General, Frank Murphy-the man whom Mr. Dies last fall accused of being too soft on communistic sitdowners-would have Department of Justice agents investigate all charges of subversive activities made by Mr. Dies. Meanwhile, to keep from casting fuel on flames, Secretary Ickes was restrained from delivering an oratorical blast entitled "Loaded Dies...
...presession maneuverings, none was so important as those that went on in the office of the Senate's president, John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner. As Vice President of the U. S., Mr. Garner regularly attends Cabinet meetings by special invitation of President Roosevelt. He attended a meeting last week and, though the walls of the Cabinet room are thoroughly soundproof, newsgatherers soon learned that there had been hot discussion, that Cactus Jack had taken an adamant position for economy...
...though to prove the old Texan's new power, Capitol Hill last week beheld an unusual spectacle. Soon after the hot Cabinet session, two Cabinet members called on the Senate's president in one day, hat in hand. One was Secretary Wallace of Agriculture, of whose acreage restrictions and proposed revival of processing taxes Mr. Garner disapproves. The other was Harry Hopkins, whose WPA performance will be mercilessly reviewed before the Senate confirms him as Secretary of Commerce...
...Constitutional requirement that the old President remain in Chile until six months after termination of office; 5) considered recognition of the Soviet Union; 6) put into effect a nationwide reduction in bread prices; 7) raised hours of employment of Federal workers to eight a day; 8) ruled that Cabinet Ministers must spend three hours each day receiving the public in order "to keep in touch with the masses"; 9) gave tacit approval to the appointment of a Communist as Mayor of Valparaiso, a Socialist as Mayor of Vina...
Died. Emile Vandervelde, 72, famed Belgian socialist; of heart disease; in Brussels. Onetime (1925-27) Foreign Minister of Belgium, once (1935-37) in the Van Zeeland Cabinet, he was called ''mother-in-law of cabinets" because of his influence. Since the death of Aristide Briand, fiery Emile Vandervelde was considered by most Europeans the greatest orator in the French language...