Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barbara Castle, were elected to serve alongside him on the 25-man committee. Defense Minister Manny Shinwell was beaten. Attlee's moderates, with the powerful bloc votes of the trade unions, still held control of the party directorate, but the vote served notice that a solid platoon of rank & file Laborites shares the daydreams of the "Bevanly Host" (more class-war Socialism; opposition to rearmament). In Bevan's language, the U.S. is almost as flagrant a disturber of the peace as Russia...
...Spanish embassy in Washington announced that a special guest would be on hand to help with the annual Columbus Day celebrations: Christopher Columbus, 26, the 17th Duke of Veragua, a lieutenant in the Spanish navy who also holds the honorary rank of Five-Star Admiral of Spain, and a special title granted to the direct descendant of the discoverer, the Admiral of the Ocean...
...elected to the Party's seven-man National Executive Committee at the Scarborough Conference, but Beer discounts this. "These seven seats only represent 770,000 people out of the 5,500,000 Labor Party members." He believes that the power shifts within the Executive Committee does not represent a rank-and-file shift away from the Attlee leadership. Despite the fact that Bevan's demand for less spending on rearmament and more on social welfare is tempting to workers, Bevan has succeeded in alienating many of the trade unions--even the radical mine workers have come out against him. According...
Photographers will adore this picture, however. Mr. Rank's cameramen are still masters...
Excluding photographic prowess, Hollywood can have its long yearned for laugh on its English rival. Rank has taken every old, well thumbed plot ever devised by the molding brains of Hollywood's script writers, and presented them so horribly that the picture should discourage anyone from ever touching them again...