Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another hint came from Treasury Secretary John Snyder, who had let it be known that he was anxious to get back to a better-paying job in private life. Other Cabinet shifts were in the wind. At the behest of the President, Secretary of State George Marshall had again & again deferred his retirement. White House aides let the word drop that the President might now reluctantly let him go-and Under Secretary Robert Lovett with him. Among Democratic politicos there was little doubt that the ax was sharp for Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, who had remarked that Harry Truman...
...made him the most splendiferous dude since Illinois' pink-bearded Senator J. Hamilton ("Ham") Lewis. But 54-year-old ex-Cowboy Kim Sigler burned a little too brightly. During two years in office, he tramped on legislative toes, ignored party wheel horses, dictatorially alienated members of his own cabinet...
...Japanese were confused. Lamented one Japanese: "We have just picked a new Prime Minister and a cabinet on the basis of a Dewey election...
...career officer, Odria had risen to colonel when President Bustamante made him brigadier and chief of staff in 1946. The following year, when Bustamante tried governing with an all-military cabinet, Odria held his first public office as Minister of Government (Interior). He quit the cabinet when Bustamante last summer brusquely rejected his demand for immediate outlawing of the Apristas...
...vanished all hope for its economic reforms. The resulting inflation is destroying the newly-issued money for which the middle class was forced to sacrifice its holdings of gold and foreign currency. With the Republican defeat in the U.S. election discouraging Knomintang expectations for increased military aid, the Nationalist Cabinet has resigned...