Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on NATO's Military Committee and Standing Group; and New York Textile Man John C. Hughes, 61, a World War I aide of General John J. Pershing and World War II OSS official, to be the U.S. representative, with ambassadorial rank, on the North Atlantic Council...
They turned for guidance, as if by instinct, to Assistant Secretary Wilfred McNeil, a handsome, blue-eyed Iowan whose fiscal talents won him a reserve rear admiral's rank during World War II. McNeil was brought in by Forrestal to supervise the defense budget, and had done the job for every Secretary of Defense since. He appealed to Wilson and Kyes because he could talk their language-production phasing, subcontracting, economic units. He was a storehouse of facts & figures about the armed services, and little short of a magician when it came to budgetary techniques...
...Soviet bloc had apparently been growing warmer-warmer than at any time since Tito broke with the Cominform nearly five years ago. The Yugoslav charge d'affaires in Moscow had been personally received by Foreign Minister Molotov, an unheard-of courtesy. Moscow was sending an envoy with the rank of minister to Belgrade, and an exchange of ambassadors was rumored. Criticism of Yugoslavia in the Russian press had almost disappeared. The Belgrade spokesmen, in turn, had been saying that they wanted to "regularize" relations with the Soviet Union...
...Dean, former 24th Infantry Division commander, who got the Medal of Honor in absentia after his capture outside Taejon in 1950, will get some news from Washington to brighten his grey life in prison camp: President Eisenhower nominated Dean (a Regular Army brigadier general with a temporary two-star rank) for permanent major general...
...competing colleges. Hains Point was flooded with Washington cops, beer and hot dog concessions, roped off areas, beflagged grandstands, parking lots, and looked like the site of a state fair. But the W.R.A. was a little too concerned with making a big impression, and proved themselves to be rank amateurs at the job of running regattas...