Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept peppering brownshirt Storm Troopers every few hours with new orders. They must not wear their uniforms during July, must not assemble, must not question or dispute the Government's massacre methods in wiping out "the mutiny of a few Storm Troop leaders, a mutiny in which the rank and file were not involved." As a final sop to the boys in brown, who have every reason to fear that Adolf Hitler is going to reduce their numbers by a "cleansing" such as that through which Josef Stalin periodically puts the Communist Party, they were told last week: "Adolf...
Rheumy-eyed Prince Saionji, the tottering Last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen) again had to rack his withered old brains last week. He and the Sublime Emperor faced another assault by Japan's big navy jingoes. Some 60 officers of the Imperial fleet, all potent sea dogs with the rank of captain or higher, had just laid reverently but firmly before the Throne a petition dangerous as dynamite. They asked the Son of Heaven to tear up in his infinite wisdom the chief naval treaties to which Japan is a party and to demand naval equality for her with...
...Partisan League" and Governor Langer's Non-Partisan League proper. While his enemies bitterly cried for his defeat as "a convicted criminal." William Langer stood on his record. Was it not better, asked friends of "the poor man's Governor," to accept campaign funds from the rank-&-file than to solicit them from rich corporations which would expect fat State favors? On their ballots. North Dakotans, rich & poor, thundered "Yes!" Governor Langer was renominated with 115,000 votes, a majority of 15,000 over all other candidates, including Democrats...
...send half a dozen young men each year to serve Persia's dissolute Shah and strong young Riza, born on the shores of the Caspian Sea, was mustered into a Persian regiment of Cossacks. He tasted battle chiefly against bandits and won steady promotion to the rank of Sartip with 3,000 Cossacks under his command. For a fateful coup d'état it was Sartip Riza who was sought out in 1921 by Persia's wily Saiyid ZiaudDin, a wealthy newspaper publisher and astute political wangler...
...attempted murder; the crowded lines of wounded Communists lying in the station, waiting to be taken out and shot. Man's Fate is not a pleasant book but few readers will soon forget their encounter with it. The Author, at 32, is already acknowledged as a front-rank European writer. Son of a French civil servant, he went to Indo-China at 20. made an archaeological expedition to Cambodia and Siam, was not only an eyewitness of some of China's bloodiest revolutionary years (1925-27) but an actor in them. He was Commissioner of Propaganda...