Word: secretaryship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equally fortunate choice is the Plan's executive secretary. Ranking Counselor Smith has the experience, the energy, and the time to make of himself an admirable liaison and field officer for Dr. Malone. President Conant's creation of the secretaryship was a wise adjustment to the practical needs of the situation...
Damaging to Earl Browder's story of Communist innocence undented was the testimony of his former comrade, beefy Benjamin Gitlow, ousted from the general secretaryship of the party...
During the Presidency of Herbert Hoover, the able engineer and organizer under whose secretaryship the Department of Commerce grew from small acorn to many-branched oak, an element of U. S. Government unknown to the Founding Fathers really got going: government-by-agency. Reconstruction Finance Corp. was the Hoover era's modest prototype for what, after 1933, became known as Franklin Roosevelt's billionaire "alphabet soup...
Only mildly sensational were other Cabinet changes: Sir Thomas Inskip took over the relatively unimportant post of Dominions Secretary, which had been filled by Malcolm MacDonald along with his Colonial Secretaryship; unpopular William Shepherd Morrison, a misfit as Minister of Agriculture, was transferred to the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. A gentleman farmer, Major Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith was given...
Another National Laborite, Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late great Ramsay, has been called Neville Chamberlain's "favorite"' among the younger Cabinet Ministers. This week the Dominions Secretaryship was added to studious Son MacDonald's portfolio, thus uniting it again with the Colonial Secretaryship from which it was divorced by Ramsay MacDonald (TIME...