Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While we face the most perilous times in world history, we have the classic spectacle of the U.S. Senate's taking time at public expense to carry on a sickening personal vendetta against a man of proven ability whom the President has appointed to a Cabinet position...
...historic, 5-to-4 decision, "should be free to exercise their duties unembarrassed by the fear of damage suits . . . which might appreciably inhibit the fearless, vigorous and effective administration of policies." So saying, the Court extended to all policymaking federal officials a rule that it had applied to Cabinet officers back in 1896: they have "absolute privilege" in making statements on "matters committed by law to [their] control or supervision," meaning that they are immune from libel suits even if a statement is malicious and false...
...National Union Front, which includes themselves, fellow travelers from Kurdish parties, and what they called some dissident elements from the National Democratic Party (which had taken Kassem's hint and ceased politicking). On behalf of this Front, the Communists were once again demanding seats in the Cabinet. "This represents a historic turning point in the evolution of our patriotic movement," cried Baghdad's Communist mouthpiece, Ittihad al Shaab -and then waited to see how Kassem would react to their patriotism...
...most powerful parliamentary speeches of his career, white-thatched old (72) Ben-Gurion, dressed in his familiar open-necked shirt, assailed his critics for deliberately stirring up anti-German feeling. He cited Cabinet minutes to show that the leftist parties' leaders approved last December the deal they now denounced as "selling arms to the devil...
With the help of the conservative General Zionists, B-G carried his vote 57 to 45. But the two leftist parties in his coalition voted against the motion. Lacking constitutional power to sack members of his own Cabinet, but denouncing what he called a "breach of faith" by the four leftist ministers, B-G stormed out of a Cabinet session roaring: "This is the last time I sit with them." At week's end he resigned, as he had six times before in the past eleven years. By law, ministers are then supposed to stay on as a caretaker...