Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aristocrats in satisfied somnolence. A great&good friend of William Green and thoroughly in accord with conservative union principles, he was sincerely alarmed when the Blue Eagle hatched him some 100,000 members in 1933-34, was not comfortable until he had squeezed out most of the progressive young rank&filers. Of late, however, old Mike Tighe has spent more&more time brooding by his fireside, leaving direction of the union to artful Secretary-Treasurer Louis ("Shorty") Leonard. Last month delegates to Amalgamated's annual Convention at Canonsburg, Pa. made quite clear their disrespect for Tighe's leadership...
...British Navy is still the favorite arm of the King's subjects, and since present British Naval battle planes are notably behind the times, it was both conferring a great honor and making a smart move last week to bring "Flying Sam" Hoare back to full Cabinet rank as First Lord of the British Admiralty-i. e. Secretary for the Navy...
...impossible that over twelve thousand examinations could be corrected and graded without error. And it is only natural that students on the border line of a certain group of the rank list should find that error and wonder if something could not be done about it. Still there is something to be said on the side of the instructor who sends his grades to University Hall and foolishly imagines his year's work done until the avalanche of requests for grade changes deposits him turbulently in the midst of another maelstrom...
...Brazos, Houston, all had claims, as sites of critical events in the year 1836 (see p. 13). So the Centennial arrangers granted every city and village a right to its own celebration, raised practically every local rodeo, county fair, flower show, milk festival, fiddlers' reunion to the rank of a Centennial observance...
Moderator. In the election of a man to head 2,000.000 U. S. Presbyterians for the next year, the comuiissioners gave 126 votes to a Machenite Fundamentalist, 251 to a Chicago preacher who was supposed to represent the rank & file of the ministry, 508 to an administration wheelhorse of a type that Presbyterians have docilely accepted in recent years-Rev. Dr. Henry Buck Master, 64, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Pensions since 1919. A portly, florid Princeton man (1895) who held pastorates in Buffalo and Fort Wayne, Ind. and went to War as a stretcher-bearer, Dr. Master lives...