Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt's long indecision about his Attorney General was at last resolved by Vice President Garner and Jim Farley: five New Yorkers in the Cabinet would really be too many, therefore the President must pass over Solicitor-General Bob Jackson. Mr. Garner's thorough approval of Michigan's rufous Governor-reject Frank Murphy settled the matter. With that approval, the man-who-was-soft-on-sit-down-strikers could be confirmed without trouble. So Mr. Murphy packed up in Lansing, took his brother George, his sister Marguerite Murphy Teahan and the Bible his mother gave...
...qualification to head the Department of Justice, the youngest (45) Cabinet member can point to studies at University of Michigan (law degree, 1914), Lincoln's Inn, London and Trinity College, Dublin. As a chief assistant U. S. District Attorney (1920-23), his greatest feat was sending two big Army grafters to prison. He served seven years (1923-30) on the bench of Detroit's Recorder's Court, handling criminal cases with the enlightening aid of a psychiatrist and a sociologist, his own innovation. In two terms as Detroit's mayor, three years as Governor-General...
Whatever history will have to say about the policies of President Roosevelt, it will not laud him for being especially well versed in the art of appointing. With Black as the most glaring example, the President has picked officials, advisors, and cabinet men who have in certain cases lacked ability and in other cases been about as poor as possible...
Hitler's Völkischer Beobachter: "The Germanophobe Ickes belongs to that group in the Washington Cabinet that . . . seeks to put Roosevelt in the foreground of their dark machinations." Essen National Zeitung: "Ickes . . . official co-sinner of the drug king [Coster-Musica], whose vest is by no means clean!" Dr. Goebbels' Der Angriff (under a photograph of Secretary Ickes slumped, ungainly, in a chair): "THIS IS HERR ICKES. Instead of busying himself with the gigantic corruption scandal at home, which is his duty as Minister of the Interior,† Herr Ickes makes incendiary speeches against Germany...
...from confirming this impression, the unexpurgated diary shows Greville as extremely scrupulous-too scrupulous-in omitting just this kind of Pepysian gossip. His diary deals almost entirely with serious political events-Cabinet crises, diplomatic juggling, Queen Victoria's shrewish squabbles with her ministers. Its value: that Greville, a shrewd and accurate reporter, wrote from the inside, that most of the leading political and literary figures of the day-the Duke of Wellington, Palmerston, Peel, the Princess de Lieven, Macaulay-were his friends. His scandals -such as the lustful Duke of Cumberland's attack on Lady Lyndhurst-are those...