Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen walking through a poor part of London (where he lives) dressed "disgracefully " in an ill-fitting suit with baggy trousers, a mis-shapen soft felt hat perched upon his massive head, carrying a portfolio of papers, nodding absently to neighbors as if he were lost in some abstruse theological question, as he marches with his characteristic swinging gait to St. Stephen's Club opposite the House of Commons...
...keeper of disorderly houses, 22 convictions. Health-Heinrich Groll, manservant, twelve convictions. Traffic-Johann Paffenholz, messenger, 23 convictions. Art-Ludwig Schulz, trumpeter, 13 convictions. Guardian of the Poor-Ferdinand Graf, painter and decorator, six convictions. Simon, workman, 15 convictions. Military Service-Robert Junker, baker, three convictions. Five officials without portfolio are named with 30 convictions among them...
...Cabinet posts he has held: Secretary of State for Home Affairs under Gladstone and Roseberry, 1892-5; Chancellor of the Exchequer under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1905-08; Prime Minister (and First Lord of the Treasury), 1908-1916; and in 1914 for a brief period he held the additional portfolio of Secretary of State...
...Ministers of Local Government and Industries and Commerce were not announced. With the exception that President Cosgrave sheds the portfolio of Minister of Defense, which now devolves on Ernest Blythe, formerly Minister of Local Government, the Council remains the same as the last one. The Dail gave the necessary approval to the President's selections...
...resignation of Premier Baron Takahashi in 1922, Baron Kato (then Minister of Marine) took on the Premiership in addition to his own portfolio. Recently he appointed Admiral Takarabe to be Minister of Marine, thus leaving himself with the Premiership only. His administration is considered to have been particularly successful in its foreign policy, but the part he played in agreeing to a reduction in naval armaments at Washington cost him a good deal of popularity in his own country...