Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faces. For him, it was a week of beginnings and endings. He posed with his official family for the last Cabinet picture of his first Administration, giving the public one of its infrequent looks at men like Donaldson, Brannan and Sawyer. Of the men grouped around Truman, only one was a holdover from Franklin Roosevelt's regime. He was Defense Secretary James Forrestal...
Last week Forrestal was still in the Cabinet, Winchell, Pearson, Allen, et al. notwithstanding. He called on the President, and afterwards told waiting reporters, who asked him whether he expected to continue as Secretary of Defense: "Yes, that's right. I will continue to be a victim of the Washington scene...
Forrestal had not raised his finger in the election campaign, and in fact had embarrassed the President politically by his stand on Palestine. Forrestal plugged aggressively in Cabinet sessions for his policies, sometimes on subjects which the President didn't think concerned him. It was no secret that Harry Truman, while recognizing his ability as a Cabinet officer, would like to get rid of him in good time-perhaps after the military budget was settled...
...Haya had lingered much longer in Peru he might have faced a common murder charge. Two years ago Rightist Publisher Francisco Graña had been shot down as he left his Lima office. Rightists laid the murder to the Apristas, then riding high in cabinet and Congress. Aprista denials were none too convincing; soon the party was on the run before the rightist barrage. Last October APRA was outlawed. Three weeks later, General Manuel Odria seized the government, ordered the immediate trial of seven Apristas who had been indicted for Grana's murder. When the trial opened last...
...English youth, played by Dick Van Patten, who had the same role in the Broadway version, returns to London in 1944 after spending the blitz period safely in Canada. While he was gone, his newly-widowed mother had fallen in love with Sir John Fletcher, a rich, handsome, married cabinet minister. He finds them living together in luxiuriant--and informal--domesticity...