Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attorney General Sargent decided a mooted point. The question was, how does a Rear Admiral rank in relation to a Major General in order of precedence? Heretofore, Major Generals have ranked equally with Rear Admirals, and outranked Rear Admirals of the lower half of the list. Naval officers objected...
...such as Mr. Underwood. Indeed, had he chosen to run again, he would undoubtedly have had a hard fight and probably been beaten. But Mr. Underwood chooses to retire, and so doing will deprive public life of the only Democrat, not excepting Bryan, who has stood in the front rank of politics for the last ten years...
Among the 60-odd patrons of 60-odd Roman churches who wear, throughout the world, the red and the rank of Cardinals of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, there are always some whose eminence is peculiarly conspicuous. The present generation dimly recollects Manning of England, vividly recalls Gibbons of Baltimore, still boasts Mercier of Belgium and him whose country is his church, Merry Cardinal...
Last week, following the failure of the Naval Selection Board to recommend him for promotion, Admiral Robison applied for transfer to the retired list. If he waited until next November, he would be retired as a Captain. By retiring now he retains the rank of Rear Admiral...
...Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), lost to Sweden, by obstinate and unnecessary warring against the European Powers and Peter the Great of Russia, Baltic provinces stretching from Stettin to Reval, and in so doing reduced his country from the rank of a first-class power...