Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposedly demoralized, had functioned amazingly well. In only one case, where a man was deliberately thrown overboard, did the regular Republican Congressional candidates fail to win renomination. In the opinion of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, the G. O. P. organization had worked too well. "What the rank and file of the normally Republican voters want is new blood, new leadership," it complained, "rather than a return to the old policies and old methods...
Japanese politicians have taken over the respectable Occidental practice of accepting financial support from Big Business, but the new custom still smells rank in old Japanese nostrils. Twice scandal has invaded the Cabinet of harassed Premier Makoto Saito, smoked out two of its members. It seemed only a question of time until the great Bank of Taiwan scandal should smear the Cabinet. Last week...
...Bank of Taiwan (Formosa), with deposits of 243,000,000 yen in 1932, is high in the second rank of Japan's potent empire firms. Founded in 1899, it got into trouble in 1927, saved itself with government aid and took over Imperial Rayon Co., the soundest asset of an insolvent debtor. This year the Government, investigating its affairs, indicted its Governor, Imperial Rayon's president and eight other officers on charges of having sold Imperial Rayon stock to themselves and friends below the market price. The trail of corruption wound into the Ministry of Finance...
Only the names of the freshmen Class will appear in the Rank List, published at the end of each year, it was announced at University Hall last night. For the last 13 years this pamphlet has contained the standing of all undergraduates according to groups made up on the basis of their grades...
...change will not only mean a considerable saving of money, but it will also remove the criticism that the publication and distribution of a Rank List for upperclassmen based merely on standing in courses overemphasizes course grades as a criterion for judging achievement and gives no weight to tutorial work. In the case of the first-year men, a printed Rank List seems necessary because of the fact that the schools desire information regarding the showing of their men. Such a publication is also helpful to departments of the University. There is no objection to a Rank List for Freshmen...