Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Popular Enlightenment. Called the youngest German ever to hold major Cabinet rank, 35-year-old Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (Ph. D., Heidelberg) became last week Minister of Propaganda and Popular Enlightenment, a Ministry which he promptly organized in five departments of nation-wide dictatorial power: 1) Propaganda; 2) Radio; 3) Press; 4) Cinema; 5) Theatre...
Surgeon General Rossiter is third of his family to hold his new rank. Surgeon General Jonathan M. Foltz who served under President Grant was his mother's cousin. His ancestor William Brown was George Washington's Surgeon General at Valley Forge. In January Surgeon General Rossiter completed 30 years in the Navy...
DURING a critical period in the present world adjustment, when he was held up at Knysna in the African summer of 1932, Shaw was inspired to break away from his ordinary business of playright to give the rank and file his views on modern religion...
More heavily gold-backed than Dutch banknotes are Swiss, which had last week a gold cover of 175%. Unlike Dutchmen, Swiss are indifferent to gold coins, prefer banknotes. Next in rank among European countries on the gold standard last week were France which last reported a gold cover of 77.65%, Belgium 57%, Poland...
Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. is an office that has stood since 1893. The post carries no diplomatic rank, the Delegate simply keeping in touch with U. S. Catholics, interpreting Church law, speaking for the Pope sometimes. Member of an aristocratic Roman family, Archbishop Fumasoni-Biondi was sent to Washington in 1922 after having held similar positions in the East Indies and Japan for six years. In May 1927 he felt obliged to state that the Vatican had no interest in Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for President. In 1929, the Apostolic Delegate called on President Hoover. Archbishop...