Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anticorruption campaign-began by putting the government's own house in order. By July 1 more than 2,000 civil service officials, clerks and policemen had been punished: through dismissal, retirement or demotion. Even the top officials heading the screening committees were themselves investigated by a Cabinet committee made up of the Foreign Minister and the Ministers of Law, Interior and Finance. Next in line for a thorough checking of their activities since 1947: Pakistan's politicians. Businessmen, currently operating under a promise of amnesty, have wisely poured into Pakistan tax offices to make a clean breast...
...days later able General Nasution summoned a rare press conference, admitted that he had not yet been able to speak to the President, but insisted confidently that in the next Cabinet "the army will have more control over security and economic affairs." At week's end, President Sukarno visibly reasserted his power by decreeing the end of the Constituent Assembly and seizing dictatorial powers...
...arrival of democracy last week in Nepal's capital of Katmandu had a Himalayan flavor all its own. After an endless, crowded tea party on the green lawn of the royal palace, the new Cabinet finally assembled an hour before midnight in a palace hall dimly lit by five huge chandeliers (Katmandu is often short of electric power). Advised by his court astrologers that the time was right, King Mahendra, 39, rose from his silver and red velvet throne and swore into office Prime Minister B. P. Koirala and 19 other ministers. Then everyone present raced across town through...
...will order up to 250 Lockheed F-104G Starfighters, to be made under license in Canada. The Starfighter holds both the world's official speed (1,404 m.p.h.) and airplane altitude (91,249 ft.) records, fills the bill for a ground-attack reconnaissance fighter urged on the Canadian Cabinet by NATO's General Lauds Norstad when he visited Ottawa in May. Thus Canada remains four-square among the substantial military supporters of NATO...
...Nixon have only succeeded in stubbing their toes on that iron butt. He has been lucky, but he also managed to escape numerous brushes with political disaster thanks to political skill and courage. Mazo reports, for instance, how in 1956 Eisenhower suggested to Nixon that he might want a Cabinet post rather than run again for Vice President. "I would have been like Henry Wallace if I had taken a Cabinet job," Nixon scornfully told Mazo later, and a friend added that Eisenhower's failure to pick Nixon as his running mate at the very start...