Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from U. S. Marine officers' wives in Shanghai. One of the Countess' expressions was "oakie doak." Her husband at this time became Il Capo del Officia Stampa del Capo del Governo (The Head of the Press Office of the Head of the Government), later was given the rank of Minister for Press & Propaganda. He never could understand why foreign correspondents do not write with the same pro-Fascist zeal which came naturally to him when he was himself a reporter on the Rome Tribuna...
...Hearst. This week Mr. Hearst's U. S. executives believed that the King had personally authorized their Chief to break the news of Edward VIII's intentions. From London by telephone suddenly came to Hearst editors, with authority to front-page it at once, a story to rank with some of the achievements of Mr. Hearst's only real rival in U. S. publisher-reporting, Roy Wilson Howard. This dispatch, couched in a style almost unmistakably the "Chief's" own, reported England's biggest news since the death of George V as follows...
...these Malcolm H. Holmes '28, director, tentatively selected four for a final contest to be held next month. Heading the quartet is the pair of Jonathan Schiller 2G and Chester W. Williams 1G, who received first rank for their productions of parts of Mozart's Symphony in G Minor...
Taken all in all, Mr. Howard's Hamlet is a production fit to rank with best, and undoubtedly one that will attract more than ordinary attention...
...influence two years ago. The Landon prediction is in the nature of a public try-out for a weekly prediction which Mr. Dunn wishes to market as a "commercial protection service." If Alf M. Landon is elected next month, Rogers C. Dunn expects to be rocketed to the front rank of U. S. business soothsayers, be assured of a respectful and lucrative following. On the other hand, if Governor Landon is not elected, Mr. Dunn himself agrees that it will be best to "forget the whole thing...