Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Hoover appointed Brig.-General Samuel Hof, Assistant Chief of Ordnance, to be the Army's Chief of Ordnance, with the rank of Maj.-General, filling the place of Maj.-General Clarence Charles Williams, retired on April 1. So elated was broad-shouldered, 72-inch Maj.-General Hof that he went straight to the golf course, beatfor the first time an habitual opponent...
...made head of the Democratic State Executive Committee, held the Weaver vote down to 44,000. His reward came when President Cleveland named him Collector of Internal Revenue for North Carolina's Eastern district (1893-97). It was as the undisputed boss Democrat of the State, a rank he held till 1928, that he was elected to the Senate in 1900 where he has served continuously since 1901. In Congress: He is No. i Senator in seniority of service, in actual age (76). He is one of the four most influential Democrats in the Senate (Arkansas' Robinson, Montana...
Kanchenjunga. For their peak, one of the giant pickets in the fence which separates India from Tibet, the party claims an altitude of 28,150 ft. They rank it next to Everest, world's undisputed highest. In this they differ with the Royal Geographical Society, which ranks K2 (Godwin-Austen)' second with its 28,250 ft., Kanchenjunga third. To negotiate this frigid, wind-beaten giant they will establish six camps spaced along the peak's last 10,000 ft. Husky Sherpas porters will strap 68 Ib. packs on their broad shoulders, grease their faces to ward off the erosive wind...
...rank of General, voted by Congress, has been held only by Washington, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Pershing...
Graduations. Two front-rank Presbyterian divinity schools conducted their graduation exercises last week. Princeton...