Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radical labor leader is Michael Tighe. Belligerent members of his own union who had never suffered through a long, hard strike were not satisfied with Leader Tighe's protests. To Washington went Earl J. Forbeck heading a "Rank & File Committee," pledged to strike June 16. Forbeck declared there would be "bloody war" if the steel industry did not recognize Amalgamated...
...will be unable to attend the Harvard Stadium Festival on Saturday, sponsored by the Inman Square Business Men's Association to raise money for the installation of the organ given by Harvard to Rindge Technical School. Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, Senior Member of the Corporation and next in rank at Harvard to President Conant, will speak at the festival on behalf of the president...
...engineering division, was in the belly of the U. S. S. Oregon, crowding steam into her old boilers to drive her at destroyer speed around Cape Horn from San Francisco in time for the battle of Santiago. For that deed well done Joseph Reeves was advanced four numbers in rank...
...George Wehnes Calver, official attending physician to the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives, talked very small last week. Friends in both chambers spoke to him affectionately: "It is a low-down mean shame. . . ." But Dr. Calver is too discreet a man to discuss the upping of his rank and pay while the matter is in hot dispute. He begged leave to say not a word on the subject and retired to the two small, photograph-decked rooms under the Capitol's dome which constitute his office, examining room and dispensary. Dr. Calver draws $292.50 a month...
...from a commander to a rear-admiral. Senators, who make fewer calls on Dr. Calver, resolved to make him a temporary captain while the Navy kept him detailed to duty at the Capitol. In conference the House and Senate compromised on a bill promoting Dr. Calver to the permanent rank and pay of a Navy captain...