Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this calls attention to the next entry, the '50 publication. There is more hope here, though. The Council has shrewdly plucked the album portfolio away from the annual class committees and handed it over to a permanent self-producing group which hopes eventually to achieve independent status. The Council also agreed to make the thing a yearbook, aimed at all classes rather than an album confined to seniors...
Sheetz promptly set up classes to improve conduct. "You are ambassadors without portfolio of the U.S. Government," he sternly told officers...
Because it is far more to his taste than domestic politics or economics, Nehru has kept the foreign affairs portfolio in his own hands...
...maintain order. The Social Democratic Central Organization of Trade Unions ordered all its member unions to stop their strikes or be expelled. Chief strategist of Finland's courageous defense against the Red assault was a brilliant, little-known Socialist named Unto Varjonen. He is a minister-without-portfolio, but Finns know that his specific job is to fight Communists...
...Foreign Ministry went to the Christian Socialists' staunchest Leopoldist, ex-Premier Paul van Zeeland. Almost continuously for the past 13 years the Foreign Affairs portfolio had been held by the Socialists' able Paul Henri-Spaak, who last week became president of the Council of Europe's Consultative Assembly. Commented a Belgian newspaper: "Lost for Belgium but won for Europe...