Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palace in Tokyo, in a hall adorned with priceless golden screens and Japan's famed wall painting The Thousand Sparrows, the Imperial Council met. His Majesty bolt upright, his generals and admirals in full regalia, his civilian Cabinet in frock coats "Bismarck style," all sat before tables draped with costly old brocade. So much and no more was the authentic news of that fateful meeting that any foreign correspondent in Tokyo was able to obtain. The proceedings were veiled in almost religious secrecy. The event which immediately followed it could not however be concealed...
...Cabinet Members, when they speak solo, usually make headlines. Last week, in concert, they did nothing of the sort. At Nashville, Secretary Ickes drew a parallel between Andrew Jackson's struggle with the Bank of the United States and Franklin Roosevelt's struggle with "the hydra-headed economic monster of 1938," by which he meant monopoly. In Chicago, Attorney General Cummings said the same thing less picturesquely, found fault with existing anti-trust laws. Secretaries Wallace at Des Moines, Woodring at Denver and Roper at Columbus defended respectively farm control, domestic peace in view of foreign threats...
Presents: from His Majesty's Govern-ment a $100,000 mansion, unexpectedly delayed in construction so that Paul & Margaritas had to move into a friend's house in Athens this week, before starting on their wedding trip; from His Majesty's Cabinet & Armed Forces a $10,000 emerald & diamond necklace; from the Greek Royal Yacht Club a yacht; from the President of France a tablecloth; from the Duke & Duchess of Windsor a gift (nature undisclosed) explained by announcing that "the Duke was an old friend of Prince Paul...
London considered this just so much Egyptian eyewash, for the reason that several of the ministers chosen by Premier Mahmoud for his Cabinet are notoriously pro-Italian. It was clear that months of pan-Islamic and pro-Fascist propaganda and intrigue in the Near East by agents of Benito Mussolini had sown in Cairo much of what the King was trying to reap this week. The British were not in the least relieved when Ali Maher Pasha, Chief Political Chamberlain of His Majesty, also told London papers by telephone that "there is not a word of truth" in the rumors...
This week royal decrees proroguing Parliament for a month were sent to be read in each house. The Senate quietly voted nonconfidence in the new Cabinet 83-10-4 but accepted the decree. In the Chamber, just as His Majesty's decree was about to be read by the Speaker, Dr. Ahmad Maher, irate ex-Premier El Nahas leaped up and tried to make a speech which began "In the name of the Fatherland. . . ." Tumult erupted, the police were called and the lights of the Chamber were extinguished, but the deputies, milling about in semidarkness, managed to keep...