Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, at 9:45 a.m., Jimmy Forrestal gave an aide an order: "Get the Chief Justice down here at noon. I want to take the oath." It took a lot of scurrying to round up the big Army & Navy brass, four Cabinet members and four Senators; they and Chief Justice Fred Vinson made it by a couple of minutes before noon. Somebody remembered that a Bible would be needed; there wasn't one in Forrestal's office. An aide hurried off and scrounged one. At 12:07 p.m., James Vincent Forrestal, in grey flannel suit and soft...
Last week, on the first anniversary of the ill-famed foreign policy speech, which was an apologia for Russia and which precipitated his firing from the Cabinet, Henry Wallace stood up once more in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Acclaimed by some 18,000 fans rounded up by the Progressive Citizens of America, he said...
...youth build a new Bulgaria into a bulwark against international imperialism." Ostensibly they were going to work on the new Youth Railway now under construction in the Struma Valley, which leads down to Salonika. But the Government reception for the brigadiers, which was attended by members of the Bulgarian Cabinet, was equivalent to unofficial recognition of the Markos regime...
Herbert Bayard Swope, longtime associate of Bernard Baruch, got the Medal for Merit from General Dwight D. Eisenhower while, for a change, much-honored Baruch (with Cabinet members, a major general, a brigadier general and two lieutenant generals) stood on the sidelines...
...streets of Mexico City, near the chamber of deputies, chauffeurs turned up the radios in cabinet ministers' cars and little knots of people gathered around to listen. All over the Republic, in the village plazas and city zócalos, Mexicans gathered near the loudspeakers to hear President Miguel Alemán's sober address at the opening of Congress. "This report," said he, "cannot be as alluring as we might have wished...