Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately after this oath Premier Goga drove his Cabinet to church, to take another, even more solemnly, before the high altar...
Dispatches last week reported from Moscow that widespread deterioration of machine tools throughout the Soviet Union during 1937 has apparently been due to too great "speedup" efforts under the system called Stakhanovism (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). The Economic Council of the Soviet Cabinet investigated last week a case in which Joseph Stalin himself had apparently been hoaxed. The Dictator voted in Russia's recent election for a candidate whose claim was that as a Stakhanovite pacesetter he had increased his milling-machine output 9,000%. Last week the successful candidate's Soviet boss and fellow workers were revealed...
Called by Farouk last week to form a new Cabinet was Egypt's leading wealthy political intrigant, Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha. His private army & political storm troops are the famed "Greenshirts." veterans of scores of street scuffles with the "Blueshirts," who are the private army of the Wafd. Outgoing Premier El Nahas not long ago ordered the Greenshirts dissolved, blaming them for an attack on his life; incoming Premier Mahmoud last week dissolved not only the El Nahas Blueshirts but all Egyptian "shirts"'-apparently thinking he and King Farouk could rely on the Army...
Today in Cairo modern gadgets like the telephone are still so interesting to the natives that an Egyptian Cabinet Minister will usually answer in person anyone who dares to ring his number. Very soon last week new Premier Mahmoud was garrulously chatting with British journalists who had simply rung him up from London...
...admit I have no majority," said the Premier. "In due time there will be a general election, but meanwhile I intend with the aid of the Cabinet to maintain law, order and a strong government. I intend to increase the ridiculously small Egyptian Army from 11,000 to 50,000 troops, with mechanized equipment and reserves to back them. Our foreign policy is 'Friendship for all, and especially for Britain...