Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began describing "My Twelve Years with F.D.R." in the Saturday Evening Post. He took a wallop at Harry Hopkins' WPA: "[Harry] was not priming the pump; he was just turning on the fireplug." He indignantly described an undercover effort by Henry Wallace to get him out of the Cabinet. Wrote he of Henry in a 1938 diary entry: "Henry Wallace is a selfish and not too forthright individual who is so consumed with his political ambition that there isn't anything that he won't do to advance himself, even at the cost of injury to someone...
...Letter. Later Ickes thought up a more "brilliant idea"-that all Cabinet members should resign because of the war in Europe and leave the President free to replace any of them. Said F.D.R.: "Why, I couldn't do that, Harold. Some of the members of the Cabinet might think that I don't want them...
When Hugh Dalton, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, blurted himself out of the cabinet and into the penitential back benches of the Labor Party (TIME, Nov. 24), no one expected he would have to stay there for long. Early last week the dunce cap was off and he was back again, this time as Chancellor of The Duchy of Lancaster.* He had talked himself back just as effectively as he had talked himself out-or, as London's doggerel-of-the-week...
...clear the way for a Republican President next January, it announced that the Senate would confirm no more presidential appointments before the session's end. The decision affected some 1,000 civilian vacancies, 859 of them postmasterships. The only exceptions would be for the military and for Cabinet officers...
...Helsinki last week, Soviet Ambassador Grigory Savenenkov entertained the Finnish cabinet at a showing of a Russian movie suggestively entitled Song of Siberia. That was merely one move in the week's kid-glove test of strength...