Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administration of ERP would fall somewhere between George Marshall's insistence on out-&-out State Department control and opponents' demands for a bipartisan corporation. The committee compromise followed the lines of the Atomic Energy Commission, with a $20,000-a-year administrator of Cabinet rank, backed up by a bipartisan advisory board of twelve men chosen from outside the government. The administrator would have complete authority to make grants and loans (through the Export-Import Bank), would be responsible to the State Department only for mutual exchange of information...
...Vice President, had "crazy ideas" and that Henry Morgenthau "had no ideas at all." Garner wondered "by just what methods of sorcery one of such meager abilities remained in the high post of Secretary of the Treasury." Once Garner said: "Morgenthau is the most servile man toward Roosevelt. . . . In Cabinet meetings, he looks like he is afraid someone will ask him a question and he will give an answer that will displease Roosevelt."* Garner tried to joke with Morgenthau, gave it up "because he had no sense of humor." Then he amended the phrase; he thought perhaps it was "exactly...
Phillips Brooks House's 217-man social service committee honored its co-chairmen; Norman H. Brooks '49 and Jay J. Melizer '49, with signed testimonials at its first Cabinet dinner of the new term last night...
...battle was won. At next day's cabinet meeting in Rome's Viminale Palace, Mario Scelba was dominant. The ministers approved a decree which would: 1) outlaw all armed formations; 2) allow uniforms to be worn only with police permission; 3) provide for imprisonment up to ten years for having arms illegally...
...Interior, had already thought about it a good deal. Italians would elect a Parliament on April 18. The last thing Scelba wanted was swaggering, uniformed, intimidating bands of Communists and left-wing Socialists marching the streets of Italy. Scelba wanted a law forbidding all private armed organizations. But his cabinet colleagues needed convincing. They feared a row. With a shrewd twinkle in his black eyes, Mario Scelba let scrappy Il Tempo take up the cudgels...