Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France on a French naval vessel-after these weary wanderings a symbol arrived in Paris last week. It was solid and rare-gold in bars to the value of $80,000,000. But its real value was as a symbol of the solvency of the Polish Government, whose reconstituted Cabinet received the treasure in Paris. The Cabinet announced to the world that not an ounce of the gold would go for the Government's current expenses, but all of it would lie in reserve for restoration of a Polish currency after the restoration of a Polish country...
...Seriously ill from long recurrent lung trouble last week at Brasov, Rumanian health resort, where he is interned with other former Polish Cabinet Ministers, was former Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck. Suffering from a heart attack in the same house was former Minister of Commerce Antoni Roman...
...crowd of 4,000 expectant Washingtonians filed in to see Director Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington under the auspices of the Capital's National Press Club. On hand were most of the U. S. Senate, about half of the House, three members of the Cabinet and most of Washington's 509 correspondents. They had heard about this story of a rather sappy young idealist, who in defeating a frame-up to oust him from the Senate, exposes one U. S. Senator as corrupt, others as unimaginative, hard-boiled professional officeholders...
...Saturday, "what they need out there is a woman." The Crimson agrees. The music was fine, but still the between-the-halves exhibition sagged in the wrong spots. The band acted like a Paris mob storming the Bastille, while the cheer-leaders gave a fair imitation of the English cabinet advocating action...
...Cabinet, though by now it would not have minded accepting them, realized that it could not without dissolving itself as well. But it could not back down on its avowed plan without trading a scapegoat. And so, next morning, Admiral Nomura announced that the ship had been sunk at last, but that there had been one casualty: Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani, who said it was all his fault...