Word: ministership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideal figurehead, never more so than now as it faces an oncoming national election. MacDonald, however, is far from well. Over & over the Conservatives have prepared the voters for MacDonald's final fade-out by slipping out rumors that he was about to resign the Prime Ministership to Stanley Baldwin. Last week the chorus of rumors swelled, picked out a definite date, the Whitsuntide Holiday, June...
...State Department, who knows China from Szechwan to Kirin (California to Maine) and speaks Chinese as fluently as he speaks English. For he had long advocated giving China an embassy. Only consolation he had last week was that he would probably be upped from a $12,000 ministership to a $17,500 ambassadorship...
Pleased indeed must have been Chief Harrison with his appointment. He had resigned his ministership because he could not find for rent a suitable house for his family in Montevideo. He can now live in Washington where many a comfortable house awaits a tenant...