Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commissioned and warrant officers and the warrant corps of the U. S. Navy feel that TIME, of all publications, should be correctly informed on this score, so that in future full credit may be given an officer of this Corps as regards his rank and status. We deeply regret the loss of our beloved shipmate and therefore feel that in fairness to his memory, he be placed in some definite category instead of that of neither officer nor enlisted...
...commissioned officer receives his commission from the President, ratified by the Senate. A warrant officer receives his warrant from the President without such advice and consent. After serving as warrant officers for six years, boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and machinists may be commissioned chief boatswain, chief gunner, etc., etc. to rank with, but after, an ensign. The term commissioned officers does not, however, usually include chief warrant officers. Chief Pay Clerk Troy was a commissioned officer of the warrant corps...
First step would be to freeze all Hungarians "each in the class to which he rightly belongs." Jews would be definitely classed apart, gentiles classed according to occupation or hereditary rank. "As in medieval times no Hungarian would be permitted to change his class or marry a woman of another class except by special dispensation of the State...
...Lawn Tennis Association with election in February a foregone conclusion. The selection of Mr. Hall, now a part ner in the Wall Street firm of Callaway, Fish & Co., was applauded by many a tennist not only because he is an active tournament player, but because he achieved high rank in his day against practical difficulties. In all his career he took only two weeks vacation each year, made it coincide with the dates of the tournament in which he wanted to play. Between 1911 and 1918 he rose from No. 10 to No. 4 of national singles players...
Rumania, once a mere princedom attached to the Sultanate of Turkey, won independence and the rank of Kingdom under her first Bratianu Premier, famed Ion (John) the Great in 1881. His son, also Ion and also great, saw the Rumanian House of Hohenzollern safely through the War, which brought the nation huge new territories. He induced flamboyant Queen Marie's quiet husband (whose name, already forgotten, was Ferdinand) to exact the abdication of Crown Prince Carol. When King Ferdinand died and Carol's son Mihai became Rumania's "Boy King" (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927), Rumanians said...