Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honor guard stood at saber-stiff attention and a 19-gun artillery salute boomed across the grassy Pentagon Mall, Army Chief of Staff Harold K. Johnson last week swore in Sergeant Major William O. Wooldridge, 43, as the highest-ranking enlisted man in the 191-year history of the U.S. Army. Wooldridge, who became the first noncom to hold the new rank of Sergeant Major of the Army (the Marines have had a comparable corps-wide post since 1957) will serve in effect as the G.I.'s generalissimo. Acting as both the soldier...
...enlisted in 1940, waded ashore with the 1st infantry at Normandy and fought his way across Europe, bringing back two Silver Stars and a prominent scar on his nose to show for sundry duels with German tanks. He was among the first batch of sergeants major appointed when the rank was created by the Army...
...accused of accepting a bribe from trucking operators. Hoffa was sentenced to 13 years in prison, remains free while the cases are under appeal.* He has been ostracized by the A.F.L.-C.I.O., been hit by Government investigations and prosecutions and by numerous revelations of abuses of the rank and file's rights...
...rival union is enough to agitate the machinist's leaders, who because of their union's strong tradition of local democracy, are never took secure anyway. Add to this the fact that the transport workers' contract with the airlines expires in about three months, and that the rank and file of that union is still heddy over the New York victory (where they won wage increased of about 7 per cent), and the pressure on the machinists to come up with a fat raise is almost overwhelming...
Bowie's new position carries with it the rank of Assistant Secretary of State...