Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system are no longer content to play a subsidiary role, and that only at the option of the student. The student is perplexed by duties which seem to him conflicting; if he needs a scholarship, tutorial is an expensive luxury for which there is no reward. Everywhere, in the rank list, in the general cum laude, the dominance of course credit is subtly emphasized. Now that the budget has become a sharp issue with the University, the tutorial system tend to stand more and more at odds with the course system. It is this which gives the suggestion to restrict...
...some years past there has been within the Conservative Party a loyal opposition headed by Major Walter Elliot, who favors a positive, aggressive, policy in contrast to Stanley Baldwin's sit-tight-and-all-will-be-well program. This minorlty is now beginning to get the ear of the rank and file of the party because of a widespread public reaction against the present National Government's do-nothing policy...
...beside the glass doors of the small committee room where the Club's committee had corralled Prince Henry, when he pushed the doors open and said, "Gentlemen, I think I will eat my supper with all the members of your club," and thus won the hearts of the rank and file. I recall that he came to the Yacht Club with his host, now General Cornelius Vanderbilt, and that a debonair feature of the occasion in his smart naval uniform was my longtime friend Hobart Chatfield-Taylor of Chicago and Santa Barbara. At the gala performance at the Metropolitan...
...liquormen regard the Schenley management highly. They were all born & bred to the business, and excitable, aggressive Lewis Rosenstiel knows precisely what he is up to. Schenley will cross the line with about 5,000,000 gal. which entitles it to one-fourth of the total business and the rank of No. 2 whiskey company. But Governor Pinchot's floor tax hit it hardest. Like National. Schenley has big distilleries in other states but 4,000,000 gal. of stocks tied up in Pennsylvania cannot soon be duplicated...
After months of jockeying and no little cursing, legitimate liquormen last week sought to hold the positions they had achieved. Square in the front rank were the whiskey men-Seton Porter of National Distillers with more than 50% of all U. S. whiskey in his saddle bags; Lewis Rosenstiel of Schenley Distillers with about 25% and the cream of the imported liquor agencies; the Thompson family with their huge distillery at Owensboro, Ky.; Emil Schwarzhaupt who quit National Distillers to branch out for himself in Bernheim Distilling Co. and who last week shouldered forward by purchasing at government auction...