Hence he has several heavy encumbrances in his official family.
The influence of this lone-hand way of playing the game extends very far.

The members of the Cabinet do not seem to have the habit of frankness with one another.

Each lives and works in a water-tight compartment.

I sat at luncheon (at a hotel) with Lansing, Secretary of State; Lane, Secretary of the Interior; Gregory, Attorney-General; Baker, Secretary of War; Daniels, Secretary of the Navy; and Sharp, Ambassador to France; and all the talk was jocular or semi-jocular, and personal--mere cheap chaff.

Not a question was asked either of the Ambassador to France or of the Ambassador to Great Britain about the war or about our foreign relations.