Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rank-and-file members of Brewster's own Seattle local won a court order for an independent audit of their books after telling the Superior Court that they feared a "very bad situation." At a Seattle warehousemen's meeting, not a single member voted for a resolution of confidence in Brewster and International President Dave Beck...
...John Sweeney, secretary-treasurer of the Western Conference. Included were such items as an imported crystal chandelier ($174) and foam-rubber padding ($382). Brewster insisted that Sweeney's estate would pay for anything Sweeney had owed the union. How? Out of the $50,000 that the Teamsters' rank and file had since forked over, by special assessment, to Sweeney's widow...
...Eisenhower's brand of Republicanism suits the G.O.P. rank and file just fine. Between "Liberal Republicanism" represented by Ike, Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, and "Conservative Republicanism" represented by the late Robert Taft, William Knowland and Herbert Hoover, the Eisenhower side won a thundering vote of confidence: 74% to 18% among Republican voters, 75% to 11% among Independents...
...college freshman and plans on spending some years in graduate study, these programs involve little inconvenience and at the same time, pay from $2.75 to $4.25 per drill, depending on what rank is held...
...Zambales mountains to work as a chauffeur and mechanic to pay for his mechanical engineering studies at the University of the Philippines. He fought the Japanese as a guerrilla, at war's end commanded an army of 10,000 men-but was especially proud of his U.S. Army rank as a captain in a motor pool. Elected to the Philippine Congress, he battled his own Liberal Party when it indulged politics and corruption in the army, goaded the politicos so much that in 1950 President Elpidio Quirino made him Secretary of Defense...