Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Result of the fight was a compromise, on "modified" vertically so happily worded that the rank & file at the convention burst into cheers as it was announced...
...resources behind cooperative self-help groups; to exempt from taxation the first $1,000 assessed valuation of homes and farms occupied by owners; to repeal the State sales tax, substituting income and increased bank and inheritance taxes. Having done the best they could to make EPIC palatable to the rank-&-file of the party, Messrs. Creel & McAdoo ducked out of Sinclair's victory banquet. Mr. Creel headed for Washington, Mr. McAdoo for Mexico. Neither has gone back since. The Democratic State Chairman washed his hands of the whole affair...
...imprisonment on Devil's Island he lived, while mobs rioted, cabinets fell, all France divided into Dreyfusards and Anti-Dreyfusards. Grey and haggard, he lived to see Emile Zola & friends clear his name, to serve at the front in the World War, to be raised to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Last week, to many a Frenchman troubled by L' Affaire Stavisky, it came as a shock to be reminded that Colonel Dreyfus still lived. In a Paris hospital, tortured by nightmares of Devil's Island, afflicted with gland trouble and nearly blind, the central figure...
...fourth son, cantankerous Edward Augustus, in 1799. Edward of Kent was one of the worst tempered men who ever lived. As a Brit ish officer he did his blundering best to squash the Yankee farmers in the American Revolution. For his efforts he was finally raised to the rank of a Field Marshal. His fondness for having soldiers flogged at cannon wheels or blown from the muzzle of guns, and later his refusal to issue whiskey to the ranks, forced his retirement as Governor of Gibraltar. Visitors to Quebec still are shown the summer house where his West Indian slaves...
...with them was at least one big man in Finland-Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of the Defense Council. Baron Mannerheim has a good claim to the title of Finland's "Grand Old Man." Now 67, he fought through the Tsars' wars to the rank of Major General of Cavalry in 1917. After the last Tsar abdicated and Kerensky took over, Mannerheim went home to Finland in disgust, just in time to pull together a White Army and beat off the Bolsheviks. In May 1918, he rode into Helsingfors at the head of his victorious...