Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Local 301's turnabout was the result of increasing pressure on it. Tagged publicly with the Communist label, U.E. recently has lost out in almost every representation election held in new General Electric plants. Dissent and dissatisfaction with its party-line policies have spread among its own rank & file. Said one shop steward: "For years my friends have thought I was a Communist because 1 read the U.E. News." When six members of Local 301 refused to talk about their Red connections before the McCarthy committee last month, other members seized the moment to circulate petitions barring any such...
Personal Affair (Rank; United Artists) is a British attempt to say "Boo!" without losing dignity. A student (Glynis Johns) at an English school for young ladies has a crush on one of her teachers (Leo Genn). The teacher's wife (Gene Tierney) senses the truth, imagines a lot more, and warns the girl off. That night the girl disappears without a trace. Is she dead? If so, by her own hand or another's? Suspicion falls on the teacher, who admits that he was the last to see her. His marriage begins to come apart, the girl...
...result of this was TIME'S two-column story (May 4, 1953) on Nasser, which described him as "a lean young field officer, just turned 35, who does not even hold Cabinet rank. Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser is becoming the real power in Egypt's military junta−more important even than Naguib, the reluctant dictator...
...Assistant Secretary of State to replace Careerman John Moors Cabot (see above), President Eisenhower had reached into the offices of Houston's prosperous law firm of Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd. Henry Holland, 41, is a hardtraveling, top-rank lawyer who likes to hear Bach or Beethoven on his high-fidelity record player at breakfast...
Died. Major General Kenneth Frank Cramer, 59, wealthy Connecticut coal dealer and politician, longtime National Guard officer who rose to general's rank in World War II; of a heart attack while on a hunting trip in Bavaria, where he was stationed as commander of U.S. Army troops in southern Germany. A rock-hard disciplinarian, he drew heavy fire from mothers, wives and Congressmen in 1951 for his rigid handling of his 43rd (Connecticut National Guard) Division, and later, in Germany, set off more outcries by his zealous efforts to stamp out drinking and promiscuity (he had a lieutenant...