Word: cadogan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprisingly, he surrenders the all-important Foreign Ministry, gossips' candidates for his successor are Permanent Foreign Under Secretary Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with muggin') and Robert Arthur James Cecil, Viscount Cran-borne, Dominions Secretary and Leader of the House of Lords. Stooped, willowy, witty Lord Cranborne and Eden were known as the "Foreign Office Twins" when they worked together in the governments of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. Their views were so close together that when Eden quit as Foreign Secretary in 1938 in protest against appeasement, Lord Cranborne, his Under Secretary, followed with outspoken approval. Nothing since...
...Roosevelt the President" and "Roosevelt the Man." The party roared on in high good humor, until young Private Hopkins' eyes were boggling out at the flow of liquor and the animated scenes around him: General Marshall and Randolph Churchill talking to Elliott; Molotov excitedly talking with Eden and Cadogan; Hap Arnold laboriously exchanging anecdotes with Voroshilov...
...busy day for King George VI. In rapid succession he received Field Marshal Smuts, the new Portuguese Ambassador, Ernest Bevin, Sir Alexander Cadogan (pronounced Ka-dug´-gan). But one of the longest audiences of the day was reserved for the sharp-eyed, thin-lipped commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain, Texas-born Ira Clarence Eaker...
With Churchill were the Hon. Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a man whose refrigerated attitude somewhat resembles Mr. Welles's; Lord Cherwell, the Prime Minister's science adviser, recently knighted (June 12), a pioneer advocate of the balloon barrage, a vegetarian chum who constantly beats Churchill at Monopoly; Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Minister of Supply; General Sir John Greer Dill, chief of the British Army's Imperial Staff; Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, Vice Chief of the Air Staff; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound...