Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from one end of the archipelago to the other. When there were no speaking dates, he kept moving, visiting workers in the sugar factories, families in remote villages and farms. In the ornate loloni Palace-now one of the last vestiges of Hawaii's monarchy-Quinn ran open cabinet meetings, tape-recorded them, had the recordings played on the radio. Says a Honolulu schoolteacher: "I've never known so much about the running of the territory as I have under Governor Quinn...
Fearing that the murder might break Lebanon's tenuous internal peace, the Cabinet met in emergency session, attended Moghabghab's state funeral en masse. The army was recalled from maneuvers, dispatched to the Chouf. Ex-President Chamoun berated the government for failing to protect his friend. Chieftain Jumblatt offered his tepid regrets ("It was fate's will...
Travel-weary but pleased. Queen Elizabeth II last week came to the end of her six-week Canadian tour, at the historic British fortress of Halifax. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and 18 Cabinet members were on hand to see her off in a whirl of meetings, state banquets and one final piece of business: the appointment of a new Governor General to succeed scholarly Vincent Massey, 72, who retires this fall after 7½ years of service...
...light of the traditional racial segregation long practiced and still mightily supported in Methodist churches in the United States, can you be relied upon to carry through the Supreme Court decisions recently made on this topic? Can you serve with Negroes in your Cabinet...
...around the exhibition again for a look at displays he had missed that morning. Khrushchev smilingly scoffed at an electronic household "console" that is supposed to enable housewives of tomorrow to run their appliances through remote control. A model pressed a button and a dishwasher scooted out of a cabinet and across the floor. At the press of another button, an automatic floor washer and polisher emerged from another cabinet and scurried about like a creature out of science fiction. "Don't you have a machine that puts food in your mouth and pushes it down?" asked Khrushchev with...