Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opportunity beckoned from England, and he sailed to become General Manager of the Great Eastern Railway (1914-22) and Inspector General of Transportation (1919-22) with rank of Major-General...
...hospital. Official dispatches cited him as an officer with "vim ... initiative ... intimate knowledge ... smart demeanor." He was twice awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal of the British Empire, wears the Croix de Guerre with Palms, of France, the Cross of St. George, of Russia. Demobilized in 1919, he was a ranking Colonel and temporary Brigadier General. At this time he came to the U. S. where he was employed as a floorwalker in the New York department stores, of Abraham & Straus and John Wanamaker. He played the clarinet in the Police Reserves Band of New York City. For a special concert...
...honor of the Spaniard is based on pure subjective passion, the pathos of the lone individual. ... Self-help alone appeals to him as being both sensible and justified. ... The impartial judge who in cold blood sentences to death ... must in the eyes of the Spaniard rank lower than the murderer. ... Spain belongs not to Europe but to Africa...
...stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants' heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity or authority of the persons ... at any time I may be directed to do so by the agents of the Pope...
...soon expect the publication of a comparatively complete report of the oft-reported but still mysterious Malines Conversations. In its statement, the Times asserted that at the time of the Malines Conversations an unofficial representative of the Vatican expressed Rome's willingness to grant the British Primate a rank in the Roman hierarchy "equal to and perhaps above the cardinals," should he desire to accept the Roman Catholic faith...