Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five Phillips children and there the King & Queen called often. Crown Prince (now King) Leopold attended all their better parties, and the Socialist leader Emile Vandervelde went there to discuss with his friend Phillips the social problems of the underprivileged. Recall. After Brussels, Ottawa was a comedown in rank, accepted deliberately, when Calvin Coolidge offered it, so that the Phillips children could attend school in the U. S. In Canada Mr. & Mrs. Phillips never found a house large enough to suit them. After two years, therefore, Mr. Phillips, aged 51, resigned and retired once more to Beverly, Mass. There...
Freshmen prefer the Reader's Digest, while Ballyhoo ranks high with them. Time and the New Yorker rank first and second among those magazines delivered by mail...
John Lewis had reached a critical phase in his career as one of the nation's most puissant labor leaders. To Miner Lewis, an advocate of industrial unionism who considers himself a progressive, the Federation's president and 12 of its 15 vice presidents are rank reactionaries, dedicated to craft unionism. When he got on the Executive Council through its enlargement in 1934, John Lewis thought he might make A. F. of L. reflect his way of thinking. He and one or two other "progressives" found themselves monotonously snowed under by Green & Co. Last week's resignation...
Named committee chairman was William Brown Bell, president of American Cyanamid Co. (chemicals), hitherto famed chiefly for the bitterness of his attacks on the New Deal and for his attempt to secure Muscle Shoals for his company. "I'm a rank amateur in politics." bonged Mr. Bell last week, "but I'm pretty much disturbed by the condition of the country...
William M. Hunt, II '36 will take the part of Torvald Helmer, and Michael Linenthal '37 that of Krogstad. Joseph Gratz '36 will play Doctor Rank, and Whitney M. Cooke '36 that of the porter. These men are all members of the Harvard Dramatic Club...