Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Leopold would have to continue cooling his royal heels in his Swiss exile. After 46 days of haggling over the question of his return (TIME, July 18), Belgium's politicians last week put together a cabinet. Fifteen portfolios were divided between ardently pro-Leopoldist Christian Socialists (eight) and mildly pro-Leopoldist Liberals (seven), leaving the adamantly anti-Leopoldist Socialists...
...bargaining Leopold's Christian Socialist supporters, just short of a parliamentary majority, gave up their drive to recall the King at once. The Liberals entered the cabinet only on condition that the royal question be left unanswered for another three or four months...
...Foreign Minister, Juan Atilio Bramuglia was one of the ablest men in President Juan Perón's cabinet. Though a moderate, he was also one of Perón's oldest and staunchest supporters. But he had one disadvantage: he had somehow, somewhere, offended the President's wife, Evita. Last week, it indirectly cost...
Meanwhile, to fill the cabinet vacancy, Perón dredged up a little-known criminal lawyer named Hipólito Jesús Paz, 32. A moderate nationalist, the new Foreign Minister is a junior partner in a Buenos Aires law firm whose clients include the notorious Fritz Mandl, onetime Austrian munitions-maker. As for Private Citizen Bramuglia, a poor man, he planned to practice law after a trip...
Okefenokee Bear. Among the 900 guests that showed up one night last week were all the members of the Cabinet except Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a large segment of the Congress, almost all of the foreign ambassadors and three or four generals and admirals. Frank was at the barroom door to greet them. "Hello, partner," bellowed Boykin. "Everything's made for love." The guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec...