Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason: it leads the reader to believe that dog races, slot machines, and lotteries are gambling devices of the same rank in respect. This is not true...
...president. He was one of four cabinet members to resign "patriotically" in 1931 when a certain "lack of tranquillity in the Capital" brought Boss Calles back temporarily as Minister of War. Of the four, whose "loyalty, disinterest and patriotism" Boss Calles praised, three have not been returned to cabinet rank, including Cardenas' good friend & fellow-Tarascan Joachim Amaro, "Father of the Mexican Army," unofficially suspected of plotting the 1931 untranquillity. When Abelardo Rodriguez was moved up from Minister of War to succeed Ortiz Rubio who had fallen out with Calles, Cardenas moved into the War Ministry...
...White-bearded now and more self-consciously rude, he still saws away so skilfully on his single string that the results are as monotonously fascinating as Oriental music. They and the magnificently photographable beard still keep him in the newspapers more steadily than any other world character of private rank...
About 200 men read medical papers at Dallas last week-in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French. Members of the Congress showed as much interest in amenities as in science. Latin America has produced few medical men of high scientific rank. But the Latin nations have many able practitioners...
...solid bureaucracy. In order to be this it was necessary to remove all the Jews now holding office, and to fill the vacant places with loyal supporters. Secondly, Hitler was forced at the outset, to give vent to the personal prejudices of his colleagues and the Nazi rank-and-file. Again, the new German dictator is a sufficiently astute politician to recognize that to hold power he must have constantly before the people a live issue, a body of emotional material to capitalize into votes. Demagogues live on popular hysteria, and Hitler knows it as well as anyone...