Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Closing the Gap. Estrangement between the union's officials and its rank-and-file becomes especially hard to overcome in the mammoth organizations that bargain for hundreds of thousands of members. It is virtually impossible to make the individual feel that he has a real voice in establishing the wages or conditions under which he works. The increasing popularity of long-term contracts is bound to make this sense of detachment even more pervasive. All this points up the need for improved channels of communication between union leaders and members, plus a broadening of union functions in education, recreation...
Taking his painting cues from Gauguin, Van Gogh and Matisse, Jawlensky learned to orchestrate the hot, fauve colors in the series of portraits that rank as his best work, teamed up with Kandinsky on summer painting vacations outside Munich. Their favorite pastime: placing their paintings on a piano for a Russian pianist to interpret in music...
Appointed by Harry Truman as chief of the Marshall Plan special mission to Italy in 1948, with the rank of minister, he too started off by stepping on Italian toes with some blunt talk about the government's land-reform plans. Before he left in 1950, Italy had come to respect him as much as he respected Italy...
...Dolores kept on picketing, was picking up support from the rank and file. Wrote the secretary of a steelworkers' local: "It's a pity your employers preach unionism but don't see fit to practice...
Columbia led the survey with instruction in 42 languages, while Harvard and Yale rank second and third, offering 26 and 25 languages, respectively...