Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desertion and cruelty. The complainant: "Miss Southern Democracy." Excerpts from her petition: "Your complainant and your respondent [Heflin] were married to each other in the fall of the year 1894 at Lafayette where the respondent was a lowly cotton grower and where your complainant first elevated him to the rank of a public officer. . . . The respondent was a model husband and his courtship at Lafayette was swift and ardent. . . . "Beginning in the spring of 1928 this respondent began to stay out late at night and was often seen in the company of disreputable characters known as 'Republicans...
...Utilities. The head of a small light & power company is a Utility Man, but his name and influence may extend no farther than his city limits. As time passes, however, he may acquire membership on more and more important directorships, may achieve standing as an "interest," may ultimately rank with Insull, Mitchell, Thorne. The progress of both the Congressman and the Utilitarian may be traced by their appearance in the newspapers, though the Congressman gets the front page and the Utility Man the financial section. Last week every metropolitan newspaper mentioned Floyd L. Carlisle, chairman of Niagara-Hudson Corp. Last...
...course records one third, and the thesis one sixth. Formerly there was no exact ratio, although the thesis was considered more nearly equal to the Divisionals. The new criterion was adopted after considerable discussion, and although in some quarters it was felt that the thesis should continue to rank coordinate, with the examinations, a larger body of opinion favored giving even more weight to the General examinations, perhaps as much as sixty per cent...
Shrewd, the Mosley outburst struck responsive chords in the Labor Party rank and file. At least 50 thoroughly Socialist M. P.'s began to talk as though they would support Sir Oswald. He prepared a motion (practically a vote of censure against Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden) for submission to a "private Party meeting" of all Labor M. P.'s. There was talk? and not loose talk either?that the Government's slim majority in the House of Commons had been whittled down to the snapping point...
Christopher Columbus was not only locked up, but irons were riveted on his legs, an indignity spared Federico Velasquez. The year was 1500. Columbus, with the rank of Admiral, was conducting his third series of American explorations (he later made a fourth and final voyage from Spain). Without his knowledge charges had been made against him at the Spanish Court, had been believed. King Ferdinand had appointed Courtier Francisco Bobadilla to be Governor of Hispaniola (The Spanish Isle) empowered to arrest Columbus and ship him off to Spain...