Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur Rank has turned out a restrained cops and robbers movie, called "The Blue Lamp." He tries to make his murder-mystery unusual by adding some authentic shots of Scotland Yard at work. But the result is a poor blend of half documentary and half fiction; neither half is very good...
...Notably, handsome Lightweight Justo Antonio Suárez, who held rank equivalent to First Secretary of Embassy when he fought Billy Petrolle, the old "Fargo Express," in 1931. First Secretary Suarez lasted nine rounds...
...years later, in August 1914, he went into action in France. Says Biographer Young: "From the moment that he first came under fire he stood out as the perfect fighting animal, cold, cunning, ruthless, untiring, quick of decision, incredibly brave." Rommel emerged from World War I with only the rank of captain, but he sported a couple of Iron Crosses and the order Pour le Mérite, which the Kaiser reserved generally for heroes, e.g., Air Ace Manfred von Richthofen and high-ranking generals. When the Treaty of Versailles cut the German army down to 100,000 men, Rommel...
...formed in 1946 when the regular Communist Party merged with the Eastern Zone Socialists. For a while, the Communists honored their promise of biparty "parity." Then, one by .one, nearly all the Socialist leaders were eased out. Now the rank & file Socialists who have not been fully converted to Communism will have to go too. SED card holders, announced Ulbricht, will be investigated "regarding all phases of their lives." They must be "true workers," must know Marx & Lenin by the numbers, must above all be devoted to the interests of the Soviet Union-no "morally tainted elements or careerists" will...
Ulbricht & Co. predict that they will oust 25% of the party's functionaries, 10% of its rank & file members, be left with a tighter, handier Communist Party. But if Stalin knew what he was talking about, the saddle was still likely...