Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early on a frosty morning, Secretary of State George Marshall came back from London. Harry Truman and his entire Cabinet were at Washington's airport to give him a warming welcome. As Marshall stepped from the Sacred Cow, the President greeted him: "Good morning. You did a good job." Said Marshall: "I'm sorry that I couldn't bring back a profitable result...
Senator J. Howard McGrath, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, took Henry Wallace very seriously indeed. He visited New York City, hotbed of the American Labor Party and other red-hot Wallace followers. Of the man whom President Truman fired from his Cabinet, he said: "We certainly would like to have Mr. Wallace's support...
Pauley, whose 1946 appointment as Under Secretary of the Navy was bounced back to Harry Truman's desk by a Senate committee, disclosed that he had recently tried to make himself acceptable to the right Senators for another sub-Cabinet post. After last week, even his staunchest Democratic friends knew that Ed Pauley was through...
From the First Damson . . . That was time enough for Tory leaders to recognize an unimaginative "safe" man. In 1922 Prime Minister Bonar Law put Stanley Baldwin in his Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer. When Bonar Law resigned, there seemed to be no one in the Tory party to replace him except Viscount Curzon. Since Curzon was in the House of Lords (and therefore unable to face the growing Labor opposition in the House of Commons), the prime ministry went to Baldwin. "But," cried out Curzon, "[Baldwin] is a man ... of the utmost insignificance!" A Mayfair hostess asked...
...billowing desert,* broken here & there by tiny green valleys which poorly support half the country's population. The towering Andes effectively bar the transportation of foodstuffs from the fertile eastern region. Because of the chronic food shortage, the Ministry of Agriculture is the hottest seat in the Peruvian cabinet. In January, the Apristas gladly turned the post over to a chubby, genial landowner named Pedro Venture, later denounced him for failing to provide food for the people. Replied Venture: "I cannot offer you miracles...