Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presently a number of chairs skidded slightly along the soft carpet as the sitters stood up to welcome the Premier and the Marshal. Premier Herriot, marching to the head of a long council table, requested the company to be seated. Marshal Foch placed a large portfolio of documents on the table and sat down...
Anon came the fateful elections of 1922, but Mr. New never got so far as the elections. He was defeated in the primaries by Albert J. Beveridge who, in turn, fell before Samuel M. Ralston at the election. But then the famed Mr. Fall resigned the portfolio of the Interior, and Postmaster General Work was shifted to his post, leaving a place in the Cabinet for Mr. New. He took it. He held it. Recently, President Coolidge announced that he would remain after Mar. 4. He has a way of pleasing without resorting to any of the tricks...
...Much of the President's attention was required by the pending changes in his official family. In addition to the changes in the portfolio of State, in which Secretary Hughes is to be succeeded by Ambassador Kellogg and in the portfolio of Justice, in which Attorney General Stone is to be succeeded by Charles B. Warren, a successor was to be picked for Secretary of Agriculture Gore who retires on Mar. 4. C. Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, resigned and is to be succeeded by Everett Sanders, at present Congressman from Indiana. Other changes were rumored as well...
Commerce. In announcing that he had declined to accept the portfolio of Agriculture, Mr. Hoover declared that it was his belief that he could serve agriculture best by improving conditions in the whole distribution system and the general industrial situation-thereby implicitly declaring that he would retain his post...
...kindnesses. Said an old woman: "He put my boy on the right track." Said a newsboy: "He was a swell feller." Said Mayor Dever of Chicago: "The rule of the Gat is ended." Died. Edwin S. Montagu, 45, onetime Secretary of State for India; in London. He held his portfolio in the Lloyd George cabinet...