Word: rank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have clearly insinuated. Their knowledge of his absolute fitness for the job no doubt may have influenced them in approving recommendation made by Navy men to appoint him. And why not? Isn't that correct procedure? And why this stuff you print that "in Navy ranks the news of their new CINCUS caused one cheer, two shivers?". . . About the cheer you may be right when you say I "was for the new commander's reputation as a thoroughly experienced, altogether first-class Navy man," although you do not fully express it. The fact is Vice Admiral Hepburn...
...French house of political cards, this time teetering somewhat further toward the Left. It contained as Minister of Public Works the Radical Socialist who was forced out as Premier by the Stavisky scandal, M. Camille Chautemps. Although a parliamentary commission has cleared him, Chautemps' return to Cabinet rank so soon "stank of Staviskery." Appointment of onetime Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, widely considered an Anthony Edenophile, was hailed as an anti-Fascist victory not only by Communists and Socialists, but also by Mme Geneviève Tabouis and her entourage of Leaguophile correspondents at Geneva. They were speechless with rage...
...Author, born in Paris (1896), like his eccentric bachelors is a member of the ancient French nobility. His family's rank dates from the 15th Century. One of his forbears was cupbearer to Louis XIV; an other lost his head in the French Revolution. Henry de Montherlant served in both the U. S. and French Armies during the War, headed the Propaganda Service of the Comite France-Amerique after the Armistice...
...oldest awards in Harvard College for scholastic excellence, the Duter Prize Books have been given this year to eight Seniors, eleven Juniors, and fifteen Sophomores. These awards are made annually to students who in the previous year for the first time made Group 1, the highest in the rank list...
...close of his holiday, Mr. Eden set about officially "becoming acquainted'' with the personnel of the British Foreign Office in which he has labored since 1926, when he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. All its civil servants who were of sufficient rank to be presented he greeted affably. These were moments to be savored, treasured. Thirty years hence volumes of memoirs will be adorned with versions of what "Tony" said last week if he proves to be a great British Foreign Secretary. What did Lord Curzon say on the like occasion? Foreign Office...