Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee has stated that it presents younger applicants, but it has not to any limits on age or rank it hopes that vacancies created next year by the fellowship will be filled by men and women uncertain of employment...
Political Career: Twelve weeks after V-J day, Marshall retired to Leesburg, Va., but was just unpacking his automobile when Harry Truman, who considers him the "greatest living American," asked him to go to China as a special representative, with the rank of ambassador. His mission: to unify the Nationalists and Communists. The mission failed; Marshall returned to the U.S. Jan. 19, 1947, was appointed Secretary of State and confirmed unanimously by the Senate within an hour. Best-known action as Secretary: the Marshall Plan. Resigned after two years because of illness. Summoned from retirement a second time on Sept...
...Helping Patton during the Sicilian campaign in 1943, Wedemeyer, then a brigadier general, asked to be reduced to the rank of colonel so that he could take command of a regiment...
...inflation ate up their original pay rises, the workers turned again to the Peróns for help. Last November, the railway union, a much-favored Peronista outfit, demanded new increases. They were stalled off. Despite blarneying speeches by Evita, a rank & file strike started. The official press charged that the strikers were Reds. "We're not Communists," shouted pickets. "We're hungry Peronistas...
Thousands of Fort Worth rodeo fans had come to watch the educated cowboys, had seen little Sul Ross College (enrollment: 1,000) of Alpine, Texas, ride off with the team title for the third straight year. Cotton Rosser's tight seat on the "rank" (i.e., fighting) stock won him individual show honors. But Sul Ross's captain, Harley May, again rode away with the All-Around Cowboy title (based on total points accumulated in year-long competition), with an all-around performance...