Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that of Assistant Buyer for a single department, i.e., drugs, men's shirts, toys, etc. Here he learns about buying merchandise, price mark-ups and mark-downs, and is initiated into the mystery of style trends and the actual bargaining which is merchandising. A man who has achieved the rank of Assistant Buyer may reasonably expect to become a Department Buyer some...
...appointment of the deputy is the direct result of charges by such elder statesmen as Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., that the "thinking machine" of the Prime Minister has proved inadequate to carry the burdens imposed by his rank as Chairman of the Committee of Imperial Defense. In London it was universally predicted that a man of conspicuous energy and brains would be chosen. Among the capital's more blatant newsorgans each has had its favorite candidate, the most arresting being the Daily Mail's choice of an Australian, famed Stanley Melbourne Bruce, kinetic, Conservative, air-minded...
...carried this pious layman into the profession of a spy-or rather into the British Intelligence Service. Next he was attached to the legal office of the British Admiralty. Of late years he has served as Attorney General, a post which in Britain does not carry full Cabinet rank. When Novelist Compton Mackenzie in 1932 disclosed some of the secrets of the Intelligence Service, he was promptly and successfully prosecuted by Attorney General Inskip. Since 1934, Sir Thomas has become the villain of an entire literature penned by indignant Britons who contend that an act which he put through...
...with a commanding voice and manner. These may be qualities of value in standing up to the truculent British generals, admirals and air marshals of the Committee of Imperial Defense. The Prime Minister not only appointed Sir Thomas his deputy last week but also raised him to full Cabinet rank as Britain's first Secretary of State for Coordination of Defense...
...ranking : 1) Defense of Self 2) Defense of Family 3) Defense of Another 4) Defense of Country 5) Defense of Honor of Family 6) Defense of Honor of Self 7) Defense of Property against Burglars 8) Defense of Property against Tres passers Interpreting, Dr. Allport pointed out that the situations at the top are those with the strongest biological or instinctive basis. Personal safety is first. An unconditioned baby will struggle against physical restraint. That defense of family, defense of another, defense of country rank next seems to show an instinctive linking of personal safety with community security...