Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also, and far from ineffectual, was the Pacific Coast strike -with 240 ships and 40,000 men still idle, losing $7,000,000 a day - but five days after the eastern strike collapsed Longshoreman Harry Bridges, leader of the western strike, announced : "There is a growing sentiment in the rank and file for settlement and nothing can change it now." A peace vote in the unions was set for this week. No empty settlement will this be for the strikers, however. Tentative agreements gave the unions their demands for 1) control of the hiring halls which pick men for jobs...
...viscount, each of these new peers being a Conservative Party henchman of long service. The Prime Minister's good wife, Mrs. Lucy Baldwin, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, got her admirable oar in with the elevation last week of Juliet, Lady Williams to the rank of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her nationwide campaign to provide cheaply pain-deadening drugs to British mothers in childbirth. Of six new baronetcies two were awarded to onetime Actor Sir Derwent Hall Caine, son of Author Hall Caine, and Percy Malcolm Stewart, who lately...
...analysis of the Rank List Standing of the forty members of the Class of 1939 who received National Scholarships and regular scholarships, or Harvard Club awards shows that 35 or 87.5 per cent had honor records as compared with 25.6 per cent for the Freshman Class as a whole. The members of the Class of 1939 who received National Scholarships and also the "runners up" not only made an excellent showing scholastically, but they also made important contributions to the general life of the College and did not isolate themselves from their classmates. From the very beginning of the year...
...would arrange for them to leave by motor truck through Banditland or perhaps by airplane. Meanwhile huge U. S.-built Nanking Government planes, each capable of taking out a score of persons, flew back & forth between Nanking and Sian, each carrying one or two Chinese officers of low rank supposedly entrusted with the usual bribe money indispensable to settling a Chinese crisis. "Was I endangered in Sian?" said Counselor Peck, who knows his China, with a hearty laugh. "Of course...
...course which is so essential to the thorough study of economics, Statistics, known in the catalogue as Economics 21a, is sadly organized and badly equipped. This year's record-breaking enrollment of 130 students has definitely shown it to be one of the major economics classes, deserving to rank in student interest with Professor William's course on "Money and Banking", or Professor Mason's "Corporation Regulation...