Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Authorities have pointed to Great Britain's Civil Service, which guarantees brilliant professional servants a chance for promotion and a substantial living. Harold William Dodds, president of Princeton University, in an article in "Time" magazine, indicates that the United States Civil Service has a similar rank and file of clerks and technicians, but there is no incentive to attract men at the top in our civil service...
...company with its infinite side lines (Fabrikoid, Duco, Cellophane, Rayon, etc., etc.) has made much more money since the War than when it was providing smokeless powder to all the Allies. Military and sporting explosives now rank tenth among the company's money-making enterprises...
...hundred Italian generals of division-such at least was their number and rank according to the Italian Press-were summoned by War Minister Benito Mussolini to his great office in Palazzo Venezia at Rome last week for one of the Dictator's famed unilateral "discussions." Among the 100 generals fidgeted Crown Prince Umberto Nicolo Tomaso Jean Maria, Prince of Piedmont, General of the 25th infantry brigade and father of an infant on the verge of birth. A few years ago Crown Prince Umberto used to be the last hope of antiFascists who tried to believe that he once challenged...
...China while simple soldiers were buttoning themselves up. Suddenly General Ho was struck by the great fact that China unquestionably has too many generals. In a passion of self-abnegation Full General Ho dispatched a petition to President Lin Sen at Nanking asking to be demoted to the rank of a mere Major General. "The rules governing promotion," darkly added Full General Ho, "should in future be observed...
...demotion might lead, President Lin replied with a noncommittal letter of effusive commendation which left Ho still a full general. Last week his brilliant subordinate, Lieut.-General Tsow Tsohua, one of China's crack artillery commanders, raised the whole issue again by petitioning to be demoted to the rank of colonel...