Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staff officer) was Brig.-General Frank Percy Crozier, 119th Infantry Brigade, British Expeditionary Force. Professional soldier descended from a long line of professional soldiers, he fought in South Africa, Ashanti, North Nigeria, Zululand, then retired from the army. In 1914 he joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers with the rank of Captain. During the next five years he won the D.S.O., C.M.G., C.B., Croix de Guerre with palm, was mentioned seven times in despatches, left the War a Brigadier. A capable officer, a soldier who knew his trade, General Crozier has no illusions about war, tells his trade secrets with amazing...
Married. Mrs. Eleanor Stuart Blue, widow of Rear Admiral Victor Blue, U. S. N. who, as a lieutenant in the Spanish-American War was advanced in rank for "extraordinary and heroic service" in aiding the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor; and Rear Admiral Frederic Brewster Bassett Jr., U. S. N. (retired), also a Spanish War veteran; at Chatham...
...Lord Privy Seal. But towering Mr. Hartshorn should carry well the plumes. He was Postmaster General in the first MacDonald Cabinet of 1924, then became a member of Sir John Simon's India Commission (TiME, Jan. 30. 1928, et seq.) and has just become available for Cabinet rank. A giant from Glamorganshire and president of the South Wales Miners' Federation, he at least looks like just the champion to grapple with unemployment...
...westward from its Philadelphia refinery through Pittsburgh and to some point on the Great Lakes, probably Toledo. Piped gasoline has thus far been supplementary to rail and tanker rather than a substitute for them, but the gasoline pipe line has well passed the experimental stage and is beginning to rank as a major petroleum development...
...that a few suggestions for filling up the vacant hours may not be amiss. A successful evening demands a good meal to start it off, and his years of wandering have taken the Vagabond into many and curious places in search of the best in comestibles. The two which rank highest in his estimation are Cann's, where all kinds of sea food are at their best, and the Olympia, noted for its various delectable concoctions in the Greek style...