Word: interior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget is simply an act of fiscal good faith; Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss and Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, who accept the results as a symbol of good management and proper Republican conservatism. Aligned against the President: Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Attorney General William Rogers, and to a lesser degree, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Arthur Flemming. In tune with the rebels is Vice President Nixon, who has been unhappy with the President's attack on "big spenders" ever since Nixon himself pushed it in the November campaign...
...Algiers, repeating with monotonous insistence the code phrase which signified that the rebellious generals of Algeria were ready to land their paratroops in Metropolitan France. In Paris white-faced ministers of the Fourth Republic nervously deployed a small army of steel-helmeted cops, not sure of their loyalty, and Interior Minister Jules Moch ordered coils of barbed wire laid out on 15 of the 18 airfields surrounding Paris. Escorting a visitor out of his office, ex-Premier Guy Mollet, onetime Socialist Resistance leader, soberly remarked: "We may never see each other again. I am going to die on the barricades...
...constitution that would have given France the strong executive De Gaulle believed it needed. In an ill-fated attempt to create national unity, De Gaulle gave the Communists five Cabinet posts, only to have them revile him because he refused them the crucial Ministries of War, Foreign Affairs and Interior. Finally, one cold day in January 1946, the general called in his Cabinet and announced: "You espoused the quarrels of your various parties. It is not this way that I understand things ... I have therefore resolved to abandon office . . . My resolution is not subject to discussion." As De Gaulle walked...
Leftists also got the ministries of Interior, Agriculture and Economics. But the King saw to it that a number of middle-roaders were included in the Cabinet, and that his own nominee became Defense Minister. The post went to 36-year-old Mohammed Aoud, who is reportedly destined to marry Princess Lalla Aisha (TIME, Nov. 11, 1957), thus keeping the army in the family...
Sign Here. For months, under the supervision of the Ministers of Commerce and the Interior, the police dug for evidence. One big break came when a secret service agent managed to pry out of a Swiss bank the name of an official who regularly commutes to Spain to see his clients. Early this month the official was arrested while on one of his trips, and the police soon had enough information to swoop down upon the office of a notary public in Barcelona. There they found a list of 1,363 names, each accompanied by a secret account number...