Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that approximately 119 officers in the Cuban Army were shot or blown into small pieces by Baptista's rank-and-file Monday has certainly strengthened the case of those who have sounded the usual cry: "Let's intervene to establish law and order." Advocates of this course cite the civil war in progress and the strong possibility of its expansion in the future; they argue the irreconcilability of the opposing factions and declare that even a dictatorship of the Machado stamp is preferable to anarchy. There is some logical force behind this stand: as long as a large part...
...signs, discarded the slogan, went in for radio advertising. It worked. A short morning program in 1932 started sales up a bit. An afternoon series of dramatic sketches, called "Pages of Romance," sent them still higher. The contract with Albert Spalding makes Castoria one of radio's first-rank advertisers. Its programs, to be given Wednesday evenings from 8:30 to 9 E. S. T. starting Oct. 4, will have orchestra music led by Don Voorhees, three baritone solos by Conrad Thibault, three violin solos by Spalding and two health-talks to mothers in which Constipation will be emphasized...
There is an unusually large field of fairly promising material to choose from, but it seems doubtful if a top-rank halfback can be found to take the place of Crickard, and, for that matter, it will be difficult to develop linemen capable of filling Hardy's and Hallowell's shoes...
...those quiet corners where Germans dare talk about politics at all, Premier Goring's trousers were the sensation of the week. The military rank of Nazi Goring, second most powerful man in Germany, was until last week just what it had been at the end of the War, Captain. His promotion, jumping him six full steps, came not from Adolf Hitler but from the President, old Field Marshal von Hindenburg (who took 27 years to advance the same distance). Cautious Germans, secretly fearing the Nazi experiment, have long consoled themselves with the thought that the Reichswehr...
...former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. All three share the same private opinion of Adolf Hitler. At the same time that General Goring got his trousers the Chief of the Reichswehr, General Werner von Blomberg, was moved up from General to Colonel General, Germany's highest peacetime rank...