Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giant Mechanism. The Cabinet meeting, which got the news from President Truman just before it was handed to the newsmen, broke up after an hour-long discussion. In the Capitol, Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon sat down with his Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and AEC officials behind drawn shades. Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg was asked what he thought of the news. "It's the kind of thing you can't think about on a straight line until you've put it aside for 48 hours," he replied...
...Meadows so that he would be informed in advance of the public announcement. The British, French and Canadians were also told; Britain decided to make a parallel statement from 10 Downing Street. By next morning, the arrangements were complete and the President's message was published to the Cabinet and the press...
...Union Constitution. While incoming classes in the past have been served by a group appointed by the Dean's office in cooperation with Yard proctors, this fall each proctorial unit will elect its own representative. This group will in turn elect ten officers who are to act as a cabinet; officers and committeemen, with the advice of the Secretary of the Union and the Chairman of the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs, direct and integrate class activities...
Once, when Beaverbrook did act without consulting Franks, he got himself into difficulties. The Beaver turned up at a cabinet meeting with a set of inaccurate labor figures, which Franks and his statisticians could have told him were wrong. Bevin, who loathed Beaverbrook, was quick to spot the error. In the cabinet meeting they started quarreling and Churchill had to intervene saying: "I really can't have two of my cabinet ministers carrying on like this," "Well,", said Bevin, "I won't accept those figures from Beaverbrook. I'll accept them only from Franks...
Franks prizes the quality of clarity above all others a public servant may have. Early in 1947, he delivered at the London School of Economics a series of lectures on "Central Planning and Control in War and Peace," in which he described the ideal cabinet minister as having "clarity, precision in thought . . . Only a synoptic mind can at once master the mass of necessary detail and yet keep a sharp lookout for the essential." Whitehall gossips, who have long noted Franks's ambition, believe that this passage indicates that Franks feels himself well qualified to be Prime Minister. Certainly...