Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been offered two Cabinet posts besides his own at times when the posts were problems for the President: Mr. Harding offered him the Interior portfolio when Mr. Fall retired, and President Coolidge offered him the Secretariat of Agriculture after Mr. Wallace's death. He refused both jobs. But his policy in regard to agriculture won with the President, and Secretary Jardine, a man of the Hoover school of thought, was appointed at his suggestion...
...They were: Briand himself (Premier and Foreign Minister), Viviani (Justice), Ribot (Finance), Doumergue (Colonies), Meline (Agriculture), and, serving as "Ministers without Portfolio," Combes, Leon Bourgeois and de Freycinet...
Having held many portfolios and tired of them; having been Premier for six months (1895); having declined a nomination for President of the Republic (1912), he long remained the revered adviser of Presidents. During the War he was Minister without portfolio in Briand's all-party cabinet...
...resigned President protested that Colonel Ibanez should not hold a portfolio while a candidate for the Presidency. The Colonel continued to await the election date, Oct. 24; clutched his portfolio none the less tightly...
Captain W. L. Tibbetts '26, Edward Gordon '27, and L. B. R. Barker '26, are the runners who last year faced the Blue. Several members of the squad in former years, however, will be on hand. Peppino Portfolio '26, R. M. Parker '26, and E. B. Boyce '26 are all experienced cross-country runners. E. C. Haggerty '27, intercollegiate mile champion and J. W. Perkins '26, are distance runners who have gained fame on the cinders...