Word: rank
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Weaver's intellectual and professional credentials are impressive. He is a Harvard Ph.D. (economics, '34), the author of four books on city problems, a canny, cautious veteran of 22 years of Government manpower and housing bureaucracies. As the first Negro ever to hold Cabinet rank, Weaver reasons that his race is irrelevant: "I don't delude myself into thinking that I've ceased being a Negro because I've received recognition in the mainstream of American society and because my problems as a Negro have been somewhat ameliorated. I would like to feel that...
...Rank Weeds Pruned...
...book is written with a marvelous consistency of style--the same phrases appear over and over. Things are constantly "flowering up," the "rank weeds of bureaucracy" are pruned, and the fight is constantly being waged at the "grass roots." Mr. Villard also believes in the personal touch: he includes a detailed and scathing biographical sketch of John J. Rooney, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on State Department Appropriations, who opposes the use of the "proper lubricant" in diplomatic affairs...
Dean Monro said Wednesday that he would prefer a draft deferment procedure along the lines of a lottery to the current system based on class rank and national tests. Under the lottery system, he said, there would be no deferment for students...
Monro pointed out that under these circumstances he would assume that students, who had not signed the blue card has not informed the Dean's Office the contrary, were giving their permission to send their class rank to local cards, even if the student is not notified first...