Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Affaires Robert Strong, a State Department career man of modest reputation. The senior military representative was an Army lieutenant colonel assisted by a staff of three other officers and barely enough enlisted men to answer phones, drive staff cars. Not one of the military men had the rank or authority to provide the liaison so urgently required with the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
...Editor Brittain's hope that today's, readers will give poor Smart "his rightful place in the front rank of English devotional lyricists." At any rate, Brittain's efforts may rescue Smart from his long imprisonment in a literary footnote. He was put there by his onetime friend Dr. Samuel Johnson, who once declared: "I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was that...
Just about everybody on the public payroll pitched in, from the municipal cuspidor cleaners to the foreman of vacuum cleaners at the county courthouse. Women were exempted, apparently because the Hague machine never gave anything but small jobs with niggardly salaries to women; policemen below the rank of detective were assessed a flat $60 instead of a percentage of their...
...Roman Catholic Church was not the only victim. The Reds have also brought relentless pressure on Hungary's Lutheran Church (500,000 members). Staunchly anti-Communist Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass, recently freed after serving almost two years in prison, was stripped of his clerical rank by a special church court. Last week, Hungary's Lutheran Church took another step toward surrender to the Red state by choosing an avowed supporter of the Communist regime to succeed Ordass. He was Laszlo Dezsery, 36, who had made his stand amply clear when two years ago he denounced his fellow pastors...
...told in his first book, This Is My Story. But if not so sensational or dramatic, his new book is a useful guide to domestic Stalinism. Here are intimate details on how the party worms its way into trade unions, dragoons "innocent" intellectuals into front groups, keeps rank & filers dizzy with endless meetings, and chains its functionaries to rigid adherence to the Moscow line. Among Budenz' recollections: how Daily Worker staffers would quake in fear of being reprimanded by undercover Moscow agents for some infinitesimal deviation from Stalinist orthodoxy...