Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain, however, they do things differently. Last week Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha, the man who is rated the livest live wire in the Chamberlain Cabinet, rose in Parliament to declare that the antiaircraft equipment of London during last September's crisis was in an utterly chaotic state. Mr. Hore-Belisha added many unpleasant details...
...Cabinet Shifts. Viscount Hailsham gave out some time ago that once his son the Hon. Quintin Hogg was elected he would retire from public office. This week Lord Hailsham was succeeded as Lord President of the Council by Viscount Runciman as a "reward" for the Mediator's unsuccessful labors in Czechoslovakia. It was typical of ponderous British politics that not until last week did Neville Chamberlain name a successor to First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff Cooper, who resigned just after Munich because he could not swallow it. High-spirited young Duff Cooper was succeeded by the completely...
Another National Laborite, Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late great Ramsay, has been called Neville Chamberlain's "favorite"' among the younger Cabinet Ministers. This week the Dominions Secretaryship was added to studious Son MacDonald's portfolio, thus uniting it again with the Colonial Secretaryship from which it was divorced by Ramsay MacDonald (TIME...
Only mildly sensational among these Cabinet shifts made as the Prime Minister prepared to go before the reassembled House of Commons this week, was the giving of a post to "Ruthless" Sir John Anderson who, when Governor of Bengal, put the fear of the Raj into its notorious political thugs and terrorists. Drastic Sir John was given a velvet Cabinet sinecure, Lord Privy Seal, but is supposed to have been put in to ginger up, by his personal influence, Sir Thomas Inskip. the somnolent Minister for the Co-Ordination of Defense...
Meanwhile, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare made the Cabinet's only drastic move, announced that next time there is a war scare the State will force upon the owners of the stately homes of England "compulsory billeting" of refugees from the cities...