Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 31, 1938) provided by guessing contests, cheap sets of Dickens and reproductions of Modern Masters, the Post has not done too well. With 3,251,223 lines of paid advertising in the six months ending last June, the Post is well behind all its after noon competitors, which rank in order: Sun, World-Telegram, Journal & American. Last week, Dave Stern applied a new kind of oxygen...
...Nicholson, keen-eyed young graduate student at Lick Observatory, sighted Satellite IX. Last week the Carnegie Institution of Washington announced that Dr. Nicholson, still in California looking for new moons, had discovered dim, elusive Satellites X and XI with Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope.- "This discovery will rank as one of the great advances in astronomy of 1938," stated Director James Stohley of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. "There will be no hope of observing [the new satellites] except with the greatest telescopes...
...Germany, abruptly flew to London and the I. S. Ambassador to Germany, Hugh Wilson flew to Paris. Mr. Wilson conferred with U. S. Ambassador to France, William Christian Bullitt, and to join them U. S. Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, broke off his vacation on the Riviera. Top-rank diplomats do not thus dash about unless urgent matters are at stake. Bonds of virtually all the Great Powers weakened in London. There fiscal authorities put aside their strained optimism of the past few weeks to agree "the peril of war is acute...
Dictator Stalin's veteran favorite, Lazar Kaganovich, big-nosed and brutally effective in driving Soviet bureaucrats to greater Five-Year Plan zeal was last week gazetted a Vice Premier. Thus was promoted a man who is one of the few remaining Old Bolshevik top-rank members of the Government, deserving of promotion if only for the amount of trouble he has shouldered. But even such good news as a promotion was a reflection of a purge. The announcement made passing mention of "former" Vice Premiers Vlas Chubar and Stanislav Kosior. Chubar and Kosior recently failed of election to either...
...school system) has enrolled 8,500 of the city's 13,000 teachers and gained for the federation its first majority in any city. Last week, having doubled its membership in two years, for the first time A. F. T. set its cap hopefully for the conservative rank & file of the nation's 1,000,000 teachers, of whom it has so far enrolled a scant 3%, some 30,000 members in 250 locals...