Word: portfolio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, Premier Laval first obtained from him Great Britain's promise, then informed him it had been broken. In private M. Laval's words were tart, but in public he made pointed demonstration of his warm personal friendship for the harassed young man who is Britain's Minister Without Portfolio for League of Nations Affairs. Together they dined & wined in a Paris restaurant, later appeared arm in arm in the gallery of the Chamber of Deputies with the explanation that "Captain Eden wishes to observe the Chamber of Deputies at work...
...Penal Code was in part authorized. None of it having been published, Minister without Portfolio Hans Frank explained: "German lawyers will be filled with joy to hear that the former principle of 'no punishment without law' has been replaced by the principle 'no crime without punishment.' This should obligate German men of the law to a new gratitude to Der Führer. For the first time the concept of 'love of Der Führer' has become a legal concept." ¶ Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick received final authority to settle all German church disputes...
...prevent the financially strapped hospital from shutting a large number of its free wards and curtailing its free clinical services. The famed hospital, which takes medical care of 25% of Baltimore's charity cases, found that the interest and dividends on the securities of its endowment portfolio were not sufficient to run the institution full blast...
...planes, good for strafing troops but unable to carry big enough bombs to hurt the Aver off much. The "pure Greeks" of the mainland were loyal to the Government but apathetic. And the Government command was divided between Tsaldaris' two formidable partners, wily Monarchist John Metaxas, Minister without portfolio, and a rough-&-ready soldier, General George Kondylis, Minister of War, who promptly took charge in the field and had himself promoted to Field Marshal...
...first job brought him $4 a week from a Philadelphia chandelier factory. Not long after that he was doing sketches for the old New York World. Fifty-one times he dragged his heavy portfolio of pictures in vain to swank Harper's Weekly to get a job; on the 52nd visit he succeeded with a winter scene of opera crowds streaming out of the Metropolitan which he had painted over night...