Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, after a cabinet session which approved a final statement of British policy at the conference, Cripps and Bevin headed for Washington. En route, aboard the Mauretania, they would whip their arguments into final shape...
...company wanted to record his message to the American people; Bonn's deputy mayor came to talk over housing for mushrooming government' bureaus; a secretary asked him to approve the musical program for the opening of parliament. Adenauer was still negotiating, shrewdly as ever, to form a cabinet that would guarantee him the most workable coalition. (The Socialists are now definitely out; in are the free-enterprising Protestant Free Democrats and the extreme nationalist Deutsche Partei.) From Bonn last week, TIME Correspondent David Richardson cabled: "Neither young nor dynamic, Adenauer is the kind of pre-Nazi politician...
When the successful revolt against Ronca came, it was thanks to the alliance of Don Ricardo's liberals and the Communists. But Don Ricardo wondered what the Communists would do if they got the cabinet posts they demanded, especially the police ministry. In the end, with troubled Carlos at his side, he drove in the darkness to make a deal with what was left of the old Ronquistas, the dictator's former followers...
...Turned down one of Harry Truman's prize reorganization plans, to create a tenth Cabinet post and a new Department of Welfare, principally on the grounds that politically ambitious Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing would get the job and use his Cabinet rank to push his ideas on national health insurance...
Gonzalez gave his cabinet a nutshell diagnosis of the situation: "The Communists have taken advantage of the students. We have to stop them at once." Then he put the riot-torn city under military rule, and went into a huddle with his aides to draft a message to Congress asking for special powers...