Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...takes over was left vacant by Clint Anderson, who decided some time ago to run for Senator from New Mexico. It was the third Cabinet change in the past six months. The others: Jesse Donaldson, up from letter carrier to Postmaster General; Charles Sawyer, Ohio lawyer, to Secretary of Commerce...
Last week, a onetime French cabinet minister summed up the situation for a TIME correspondent: "There will be a time to negotiate with Stalin and that will come when Stalin has to negotiate. Believe me, then he will not talk out of the corner of his mouth to Henry Wallace. Just now, at the most, he is getting near to that point. When will he be compelled to negotiate? I can give you the answer-when the balance of world force is sufficiently in the favor of the West, in other words, when we have Western Union-anyway Western military...
MacArthur cajoled the Cabinet and the Diet into creating a new constitution, which was not only a democratic marvel (in form) but also contained a renunciation of war. Labor organizations were set up and encouraged to assert their rights. War criminals were brought to trial. Several of them, on the brink of execution, thanked the U.S. for fair treatment. Ill-famed wartime Premier Hideki Tojo and 24 other top wrongdoers are awaiting sentence. Nobody in Japan, certainly no American, could be sure that these lessons would stick. But the score was impressive...
...price situation had worsened. So had the international outlook. Doug Abbott had toughened with the times. He was no longer a patient listener. Many a time in budget conferences he cut short advisers with a brusque yes or no and hurried to the next item. Even with colleagues of Cabinet rank he had lost the habit of turning aside importunities with easy banter...
Died. Colonel James Layton Ralston, 66, Canada's bull-dogged wartime Minister of National Defense, whose demand that home-defense draftees ("zombies") be shipped overseas forced a Cabinet crisis and his resignation in 1944; of a heart ailment; in Montreal...