Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alexander would be raised to the rank of earl...
Although Adlai Stevenson was a rank amateur in practical politics when he became governor of Illinois in 1949, he inherited a rich family tradition of public service. His ancestral hero is great-grandfather Jesse W. Fell, who trudged into Illinois with a knapsack over his shoulder in 1832. Jesse Fell was a lawyer who became a real-estate developer and city planner, and was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln. He was the first to describe Lincoln as presidential timber. A staunch Republican, Fell proposed the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and played an important part in the Lincoln-for-President campaign...
...whole kit & caboodle of the U.S. defense buildup in Europe outside Ike's field of military command. He is William Henry Draper Jr., 57, New York investment banker and professional troubleshooter. President Truman appointed Draper to a new omnibus post: 1) senior U.S. civilian official, with the rank of full ambassador, in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; and 2) head man in Europe of the new Mutual Security Agency, which has replaced the Marshall Plan. Draper will be the supreme civilian spokesman for the U.S. in Europe...
Caesar and Cleopatra--at Loew's Center--A revival of Rank's excellent movie. If you couldn't get to see Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra in New York, now's your chance. Claude Rains is Caesar...
...interesting initial finding showed that grades received in General Education courses tended to run somewhat higher than the rank list of the average students...