Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President starts to build his administration from the top down by getting ten good men and true for his Cabinet. These first-rank appointees then help him fill up the lower grades in their respective departments. Next to be found are the 32 members of the Sub-Cabinet ranging from the Undersecretary of State to the Second Assistant Secretary of Labor. A clean sweep in the foreign service requires 15 new Ambassadors. 42 new Ministers. A new President must pick & choose until he gets men to serve him as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Commissioner of Customs, Comptroller of the Currency...
...Chicago. Banker Traylor's appointment would be satisfying to Kentucky where he was born in a log-cabin 54 years ago, to Texas where he got his start as a grocery clerk and smalltown banker and to Illinois where he reached, with dignity and without greed, the front rank of his vocation. A precedent in his favor: Lyman Judson Gage stepped out of the presidency of the First National to become McKinley's Secretary of the Treasury...
...steel strand in bridge-building. His foot was crushed in 1869 while making a preliminary survey for Brooklyn Bridge and 18 days later he lay dead of tetanus infection. The work was carried on by his young son Washington Augustus Roebling. an engineer proud of his Civil War-earned rank of Colonel. His specialty was caisson construction and he spent much time in high-pressure chambers under the East River. He contracted the "bends" a disease feared by all men who work under compressed air. Close to death, he rented a room on Brooklyn Heights and watched the construction through...
...called "suitable restraint": "Neither Hans Christian Andersen nor Carl Grimm in appealing to the fancies of children ever overtaxed his imagination as President Hoover repeatedly has done in his endeavor to regain the lost favor of the American people. Contrasted, with his addresses, Aesop's Fables deserve to rank as accurate history...
Third the only party supporting von Papen's Cabinet, the Nationalist Party led by the "Hearst of Germany," Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, failed to climb from its rank of fifth largest German Party, though it did increase its vote...