Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prague the utmost consternation reigned in Cabinet circles. Dr. Benes, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," was quite able to add up the Stalin blood purge, the Chamberlain tribulations, the Blum uncertainties and the collapse of Austria. Smart, quick, the President rushed into effect measures he hoped would insure peace between Czechoslovakia and Germany. The 3,200,000 Czechoslovaks who are radically German and whose principal leader is blatant Nazi Konrad Henlein-involved only a few months ago in a homosexual scandal -are to be given by a bill announced by the Cabinet last week the right to fill...
...leading up to La Patrie! Last week Premier Leon Blum, an intellectual of parts, had the nerve-racking experience of finding that neither the Chamber nor Senate would spark to a speech in which he used all the sure-fire La Patrie twists, introducing his new Popular Front Cabinet...
...what veteran Paris correspondents saw as "a curious victory along strictly party lines," the Chamber quietly voted the new Cabinet confidence, 369-to-196. It was a curiosity that the Popular Front Premier kept offering in the lobbies to resign in favor of a National Union Cabinet, kept finding insufficient takers...
...worst possible choice, from the viewpoint of those French and British capitalists from whom France must try to keep on borrowing at the rate of over 30,000,000,000 francs per year, to keep her armament program going. On the other hand, a point in the Cabinet's favor is that pathetic, inexperienced Yvon Delbos is no longer Foreign Minister, has been replaced by veteran Joseph Paul-Boncour, everlasting French delegate to the League of Nations. Like his great friend Lord Perth, who as Sir Eric Drummond was League Secretary General for 14 years, M. Paul-Boncour...
Holcombe described it as "a real privilege" to get some insight into the government at work in this manner, and said that besides the usual trip to Congress the Institute would arrange meetings with cabinet officers and at least an inside look at the White House and other government offices...