Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year, because of a new Cabinet policy, the election is being held a month earlier than in previous years to enable the officers-elect to assume their positions in the spring and thus have experience when the fall term opens...
...been prevented for six years by their constitution from having a nationwide election. This has been because Austria's firm Catholic leaders think, although they may be wrong, that at the polls there would be rather better than a bare majority of votes for installing an Austrian Nazi Cabinet which in turn would merge Austria with Germany. Given last week this situation of pent-up Austrian politics, given Herr Hitler's need of a spectacular success to cap his crackdown on the German Army fortnight ago, and given Herr von Ribbentrop's reputation for sticking at nothing...
...Austrian Nazis recently arrested. In return for a reputed pledge by Hitler to squelch Austrian Nazi violence, Schuschnigg reputedly pledged not to flaunt his evidence of German guilt before the world and to amnesty the Austrian Nazis now in jail, may even take an Austrian Nazi into his Cabinet. None of this did the Austrian people know officially for sure, but they had their Adam's apples again under control...
...assortment of six former Rumanian Premiers, few outstanding as national figures and all bitter rivals of each other, were announced to have entered the Cabinet as Ministers without Portfolio-i. e., window dressing for "National Concentration Government." Rumania's second largest political group, the National Peasant Party of famed Dr. Julius Maniu, was not represented. In the windy way of dictators, Carol II proclaimed: "In these stern times only heroic measures can save Rumania. ... I am determined to save it by the single thought of the Fatherland's needs! . . . Along this path we must advance. God help...
...contract differed widely. Said he: "I am glad to see signs of competition in the tire bids, and I hope the practice will be extended to other merchandise purchased by the Government." Then, implying that price collusion is the everyday state of affairs in the U. S., the owlish Cabinet officer declared: "I also would like to see this policy extended to consumers generally...