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Word: ministership (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luckily, he was used to quick sartorial changes. So when elegant Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., 47, last week stepped out of his five ambassadorships, one ministership and into a lieutenant colonel's uniform, he did it with neatness and dispatch. In his new job, his business will be U.S. relations with occupied European nations (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg). But his boss will be General Eisenhower instead of Cordell Hull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Military Ambassador | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...enacted again. Winston Churchill had flown back to Britain and this week would again bulge up in Parliament to face, and probably outface, his critics. Though he had risked the flat statement "Egypt will be held," even the speedy fall of Egypt was not likely to upset his Prime Ministership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The War and Winston Churchill | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...John Wardlaw-Milne's motion was tactically bad, and his friends of the arch-Tory 1922 Committee were hotly angry with him on that account. His motion would allow Prime Minister Churchill to call for a vote on the motion, rather than on dissociating the Prime Ministership and Defense Ministership. However many would vote for the latter, few, if any, would give a flat no-confidence vote to the Churchill Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The War and Winston Churchill | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...fade. Though a great deal came from the Left, the Left was well aware that much came from the deepest Right. And the Left was inclined to go along with a man whom the Right disliked, so long as no powerful Leftist seemed likely to get the Prime Ministership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The War and Winston Churchill | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Speaking to the nation on the second anniversary of his Prime Ministership, Winston Churchill said in effect that the turning point in World War II had arrived. He said it persuasively. Nothing bucks up a Prime Minister like victories, and Churchill had Madagascar, the terrific R.A.F. raids on Germany, and the Coral Sea to bolster his spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill's Good Cheer | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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