Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Champ," "Charlie." With all four of these gentlemen, listed as Dahlman, Hearndon, Chevigney, and Riley, in the field, Notre Dame's able team pounded past Penn State, 28 to 0. Wilson and Harding made a cabinet of their own in the Army backfield and kept tossing the portfolio back and forth until, with the support of the best line in the East, they beat their heavy Syracuse visitors...
Senator Raoul Dandurand.... Minister without Portfolio...
Born in 1860 when Ulysses S. Grant was a clerk at Galena, this cool-headed Yankee pursued his blue-eyed way through school, through Annapolis, on to the Senatorship and Cabinet Portfolio as Secretary of War under Harding and Coolidge. Meanwhile he had become a millionaire-Hornblower & Weeks, bond house. Political observers in 1921 saw for John Weeks a flower-strewn path to the White House...
...Ambassador of the United States to Europe-without Portfolio"-a curious title for a joke-smith. The braided butler of the consular drawing-room chants it through his thorax, scorching the sibilants, booming the o's. The company stares at the newcomer. Famous women turn, over ivory shoulders, a glance cool with appraisal; gentlemen in dinner shirts striped with impossible decorations raise their monocles or feel for their small arms while he shambles into the room-"Viva, l'Ambassadeur." He wears an old grey suit. A jazbo necktie adorns, but fails to hide, the golden collar-stud...
...freely predicted, and M. Tardieu was somewhat prematurely touted as M. Caillaux's successor. His record is scarcely inspiring, though he proved himself for many years a useful henchman to M. Clemenceau. His only ministerial experience was gained in 1919-20 when he held with distinction the portfolio of Devastated Regions. As everyone knows, he came to the U. S. in the role of French High Commissioner...