Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clay. He announces that there must be no antiroyalist agitation. It might even be advisable to roll up the Red Flag for a while, in favor of the national green, white & red. Moscow recognizes Marshal Ba-doglio's royalist government and Palmiro Togliatti enters it as Minister without Portfolio. Less ductile Communists, who still want to rush to the barricades, are pushed out of the party, many by the "respectable" device of being refused support by the Communist machine in local elections. All the fighting, for the present, will be done on the barricades of bureaucracy. Slovenly, shambling Mauro...
...Eugenic Reale. Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, holds the party's foreign portfolio. He is a physician, a brilliant conversationalist and a bon vivant who has the puffy, pouting look of a constipated baby...
...outsiders in China's government and managed to throw a little gauze over its control. There was not much pushing, none of the insiders left for the comparatively ignominious life of politicians out of office. The Party merely established a few positions for the minority, created several ministers without portfolio-a useful importation from the West-and the new provisional government stood for the world...
They bluffed their way through their first "big, broad" portfolio pieces (New Mexico, Florida); the Mexican roundup in this issue, and next month's on Bermuda, are thoroughgoing, eyewitness staff jobs...
Although he had a private understanding with President Truman that he would take up the portfolio of the Department of State when Byrnes put it down, General Marshall, too, was surprised at the sudden call from Washington informing him that the time had come. On Monday evening he drove to the Gimo's to break the news of his departure...