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Though it was the last created (1913) and hence the "lowest" in rank, the Labor portfolio is easily the fourth most ticklish for a President to assign. His Treasury choice, most ticklish, must have the approval of the American Bankers' Association and Big Business at large. Next most ticklish is picking an Attorney General and on this Presidents invariably consult the American Bar Association. Secretary of State is of less definite, more external importance, causing a President to calculate how his Administration will be regarded by other nations. Then, having suited Capital, Bench & Bar, and the World at Large...
Early in the War "F. E." jumped from Ireland to France (as so many hotheads did), won mention in despatches and the rank of Major in the King's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, was recalled to London by Lord Kitchener to advise the Government in ticklish court-martial cases, presently became Chief Censor...
...President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson held conferences on whether or not to extend diplomatic recognition to Col. Luis Sanchez Cerro who had just turned Dictator-President Augusto Bernardino Leguia of Peru out of office (see p. 22). The question was ticklish. The accepted U. S. doctrine formulated in 1923 by Charles Evans Hughes as Secretary of State, was to recognize only those Latin American governments which come into power by constitutional means. A complication in the Peruvian situation was the fact that the revolutionaries held Commander Harold Grow, U. S. citizen, commander of the Leguia air forces...
...socialization of all basic industry, 6) disfranchisement of all Jews, 7) expulsion of all non-Germans who have immigrated since Aug. 2, 1914 If such an extraordinary program should win the Fascists a large block of seats in the Reichstag old President Paul von Hindenburg would have an extremely ticklish time organizing his government. To gain Hitler's support, Chancellor Heinrich Briining would doubtless be forced to turn over the minister of interior to a Fascist, placing police power in Demagog Hitler's hands just as it now is in Thu- ringia. That, believe lovers of Democracy, would...
Belden V. Plimsoll, president of Inter-continental Adding Machine Co., was no ordinary father. He saw no reason why principles and practice which had brought him business success should not be applied to the ticklish task of bringing up his only daughter. Lollie was pretty and had reached years of indiscretion. Her mother's clear feminine eye saw her wilful daughter with understanding but helpless despair. Nothing permanently troubled Tycoon Plimsoll's occasionally anxious optimism. The "big toad in the one-toad puddle of Lakeville," he could arrange situations to suit himself. Ineligible but attractive young men were...