Word: cabineteers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...generous mood, the House last week approved a bill to give $1,250,000 a year in pay boosts to Cabinet officers and some 240 other department and agency heads. Cabinet members would be raised from...
...Hattie Carnegie suit and a purple orchid (from Mrs. Woodrow Wilson), stood proudly beside Vice President Barkley and her new boss, Secretary of State Acheson, for the swearing in. The minister to Luxembourg's oath-taking was far more star-studded than Acheson's had been. Five Cabinet members, half a dozen ambassadors and squads of faithful Mesta partygoers showed up. "It's just like one of Perle's parties," said one guest. After the ceremony, the Democratic Party's fund-raising hostess made a happy little speech. Said she: "I expect to take...
Britain's Labor government, locked in dubious battle with the obscure forces of a dollar-exchange crisis, had to turn this week to a more tangible danger. On the decision of his cabinet, King George VI proclaimed a state of emergency to meet a two-week-old strike on the London docks. Not since the General Strike of 1926 had a British government taken such drastic action in a labor dispute...
...what was going on. Promptly, Tsaldaris rushed to the King. To prevent Kanellopoulos' appointment, Tsaldaris chose the lesser of two evils, agreed to serve as Foreign Minister under nonpartisan Diomedes, who had been scheduled to be his Vice Premier. The King reluctantly approved. This week, Diomedes and his cabinet were sworn in. It was virtually the same as the old cabinet...
Belgium's Christian Socialists, who had fallen just short of an absolute majority (TIME, July 4), last week sought to form a coalition cabinet. Premier-designate Paul van Zeeland pledged an "unflinching" fight for return of exiled King Leopold III. The Liberal Party shunned "rash decisions" on the royal question; they wanted tax cuts first. The Socialists growled ominously: if Leopold came back, they would call a general strike. As the tense maneuvering between the parties continued, it seemed that Belgium's royal question would have no easy answer...