Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates got some evil-smelling doses to swallow. Leader of the House of Commons Herbert Morrison had sent up from London a cabinet decision that manual workers in nationalized industries for a period of two years must not even discuss pension plans with the nationalized boards running their industries. Said a Durham miners' leader: "Mind you, it's not that we trade unionists want to force the government into doing something the nationalized industries can't afford. We'd be perfectly willing to hold an inquiry on the point. But we're not going...
...September 1948, Paris cartoonists pictured a mousy little man rushing to his buggy with whip and stethoscope in hand. France had just formed its fourth government in seven weeks. The cartoonists knew that the new Premier, Henri Queuille, had been a country doctor, but, although he had been a cabinet minister many times, they did not know much else about him. M. Queuille is in fact a man who does not hurry if he can help...
Best Choice. St. Laurent moved into the cabinet like a veteran, applied his quick, logical and incisive lawyer's mind to every problem that came his way. As early as 1943, Mackenzie King told intimates that St. Laurent was the best choice to succeed him as head of the government. When King, after 21 years as Prime Minister, stepped down last November, St. Laurent moved into his office in the East Block of the Parliament Buildings...
...desk, once the desk of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's only other French Canadian Prime Minister (1896-1911). At lunchtime, he usually walks across the street alone (he has no bodyguard) to the staid and stark Rideau Club, where he customarily sits with other cabinet members at the "Ministers' Table." After lunch, he is in his office until about 6:30. Except on the hottest days St. Laurent works with his coat on. It is an unwritten rule that the 44 members of his staff shed theirs only when the P.M. is in shirtsleeves. He writes ten to 20 letters...
...Laurent went with his resignation ready. When he came home, Madame St. Laurent asked what kind of an impression he had made. Said St. Laurent: "Too good, I'm afraid." He had agreed to stay on as Secretary of State for External Affairs, a cabinet job that Mackenzie King had handled along with the Prime Ministry...