Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first official act last week, Secretary Wilson barred all officers and employees from taking part in departmental dealings with firms in which they have a financial stake. In case of possible conflict of interest, the decisions are to be made by "someone else of equal or higher rank" in the department...
When Widower Charles Curtis was elected Vice President of the United States in 1928, he assumed that his half-sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann, would rank as his official hostess. Dolly had been with Curtis in Washington ever since he came out of Kansas to enter the House of Representatives in 1893, and had acted as his secretary for 20 years. Even her marriage to Patent Lawyer Edward Everett Gann, a Kentucky Democrat, did not separate Dolly from brother Charles. She continued to play an active part in his campaigns and, after the death of his wife in 1924, she became...
...drove off at 4 m.p.h. down the avenue. As soon as the President and his lady were settled in the reviewing stand, the parade began. In the ten-mile-long procession, there was something for everyone: cowboys & Indians, barelegged Texas beauties (six landed in the hospital with colds), rank upon fast-stepping rank of soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, WACs, cadets, midshipmen, veterans...
...grey, Taylor (6 ft., 175 lbs.) has "a dislike of getting fat." To keep in trim he plays handball in winter and tennis in summer. A nonsmoker, he keeps social activities to a minimum, and drinks, according to one acquaintance, "as little as possible for a man of his rank." Married to Lydia Gardner Happer since 1925, he has two sons, John Maxwell, 22, a Government employee, and Thomas...
Lord Baden-Powell, 39, whose father founded the Boy Scout movement, was promoted to the rank of police sergeant in the London special constabulary...