Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mint julep and steak party this week at the Cafritz estate. The guest list, if all showed up, was almost as impressive as a Mesta fiesta. Among those invited: Vice President Barkley, the John Snyders, the Clark Cliffords, Generals Omar Bradley and Hoyt Vandenberg, a hatful of ambassadors and Cabinet members, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
After Premier Themistocles Sophoulis' death (TIME, July 4), King Paul asked Foreign Minister Constantin ("Dino") Tsaldaris, a Populist (right-winger), to form a new cabinet. In his eagerness, Dino promised portfolios to 27 of his friends. At the last minute, he found there were only 25 ministerial posts to fill. With great presence of mind, Tsaldaris simply created two new cabinet posts-Tourism and Physical Culture...
Tsaldaris' candidate for Minister of Physical Culture declined the post. Then several minor parties proposed another coalition under a mild Byzantine scholar, nonpartisan Deputy Premier Alexander Diomedes. Tsaldaris insisted on an all-Populist cabinet with himself as Premier and for a while it looked as though he would have his way. One evening last week, all the cabinet candidates, immaculate in grey ties and white shirts, were assembled in Tsaldaris' living room, drinking Turkish coffee and waiting for a phone call from the King to summon them to the swearing-in ceremony...
...teaching in elementary schools). ¶Non-Lutherans would have to pay only one-half of their present national church tax (under the present law, most Swedes must contribute about 1% of their income to help support the state church). ¶Nonmembers of the state church, currently barred from all cabinet posts, would be eligible for any cabinet posts except those dealing with education and religion...
Died. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, 74, president (1916-43) and chancellor (since 1943) of Stanford University; Secretary of the Interior in the Hoover Cabinet, 1929-33, president of the A.M.A. (1923-24); of a heart ailment; in Stanford, Calif...