Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were as eager for the portfolio of Secretary of State. Few were as well qualified by experience. Ever since his college days at Amherst, Robert Lansing's sphere of interest had been worldwide. At 28 he was associate counsel for the U. S. in the Behring Sea Arbitration. Later he represented his country in more international controversies than any other living man. As Under Secretary in 1914 he was the real functionary in Washington while Secretary William Jennings Bryan preached Pacifism throughout the country. Once Mr. Lansing was aroused from bed to digress on international law. It was held...
Briefly, Senator Mosconi, who assumed the portfolio of Finance, last week, is typical of the old, feudal aristocracy of Italy, whose descendants Commoner Mussolini constantly rallies to his own essentially feudal standard-a standard now ascendant over the Throne, as not a few were in feudal times...
Amid ensuing furor Finance Minister Georges Kafandaris resigned both his portfolio and his leadership of the Liberals, then announced that he had broken with Venizelos and would form a separate party. Amid frenzied political jockeying the Coalition Cabinet of Alexander Zaimis found its majority in the Chamber dispersed and proceeded to resign. As the hubbub increased and one effort after another to form a new coalition failed, Greek news organs quoted the Old Man of Crete as observing serenely: "I shall resume the Prime Ministry...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-Any portfolio in a storm is the principle that leads an unprincipled diplomat into a lady's boudoir (TIME...
Friends of "career men" were disappointed when they heard that the desirable portfolio to Peru was to be entrusted to large, loquacious Alexander Pollock Moore (see THE CABINET...