Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...folksiness were unquestionably winning him new converts every day. By week's end Harold Stassen anxiously changed plans and prepared to return to the scene three days ahead of schedule. Dewey was feeling cocky enough to start talking about the men he had in mind for his Cabinet. The Secretary of the Interior, he promised, would certainly be a westerner. For Secretary of State, he announced, he had two men in mind: his longtime adviser John Foster Dulles and his unannounced presidential rival, Arthur Vandenberg...
...main anniversary event was a banquet too big for the club to handle: two dining rooms were taken at the Windsor Hotel. Quebec's party hierarchy was on hand. So were 13 members of the federal Cabinet, and at the last minute Prime Minister Mackenzie King showed...
...Play a Bad Card . . ." "I felt I had something to do in politics," says Spaak of this period, "but all the doors were closed." In 1935, a door opened. Premier Paul van Zeeland asked him to enter the Cabinet as Minister of Transport, Posts & Telegraphs. Spaak accepted. Then, excitedly, he telephoned his mother: "Maman, if your telephone breaks down, complain directly to me. I'm the new Communications Minister." The next year he became Foreign Minister...
Frederic M. Flalkow--Apley Hall; Jubilee Committee; PBH Cabinet, Social Service Committee, and chairman, Blood Drive; Relief Drive, Freshman baseball team; Interyard basketball...
...Gaitan, 35, sat with her daughter Gloria, 10. For days she refused to permit his burial unless Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez first resigned. Even if she relented, the wobbly government could hardly risk a huge public funeral. Finally Dario Echandia, Liberal leader in Ospina's new cabinet, arranged a solution that Senora de Gaitan accepted: a private funeral this week at Gaitan's home, with burial of the body in the house which would then become a national shrine. The block in which it stands would be converted into a national park. In the center...