Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another appointment of near-Cabinet rank helped repay Ike's political debts to two important groups of supporters: 1) the women; 2) Southern Democrats for Ike. For Federal Security Administrator he picked Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, Houston publisher and first commander of the WAC, and invited her to sit in on Cabinet meetings because of the "vital importance of her position"-supervising the Social Security program and a clutch of welfare offices including the Public Health Service, the Office of Education and the Food and Drug Administration...
...Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., his pre-convention campaign manager who was defeated for re-election to the Senate on Nov. 4? Last week Ike answered the question. He picked Lodge to succeed Vermont's ailing Warren Austin as head of the U.S. mission to the U.N., with the rank of ambassador...
...eight debates against Harvard, Norfolk this record in mind it is not surprising that the Crimson debaters rank Norfolk along with Yale as their toughest competition. After three successive defeats to Norfolk in the last two years, Harvard finally managed to pull out a victory two weeks ago, but only against the convicts' second or third team...
...pour on the bathos with one eye on the camera and the other on the Academy Award. Ward Bond is in the unlikely role of a soft-spoken but venomous prison commandant. Bond is usually loud-spoken, and someboy's best cavalry sargent. But he does not become rank conscious, and his promotion suits...
Georgia Tech's Sugar Bowl opponent, Mississippi, pulled the upset of the week by downing unbeaten Maryland, No. 3 in the polls, 21-14. Michigan State, No. 1, held its rank by toppling Notre Dame, 21-3. And Michigan, upsetting Purdue 21-10, took over the lead (tied with Wisconsin) in the Big Ten Conference race...