Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proudly displayed a certificate making him an honorary transport pilot, and the first of 500,000 new identification cards for members of the Army's Organized Reserve Corps. Rank: "C-in-C." Expiration date: "Indefinite...
That statement in Crommelin's personnel file made it almost certain that he would not be promoted to rear admiral (he was the second ranking airman in line) by the selection board which meets this week. It also greatly diminished his chances of ever attaining flag rank...
...attacked the Western foreign ministers for not doing a better job of bringing about a French-German understanding (see INTERNATIONAL). When a newsman asked him about L'Epoque's story, De Gaulle said noncommittally: "I don't sign any protocols; I invite all Frenchmen, regardless of rank and creed, to rally around me in the best interests of the nation...
Under its first president, William Rainey Harper, the school that John D. Rockefeller had founded in 1891 with a $600,000 gift (and which John D. had originally thought of as just a good Baptist college) became a first-rank university almost at birth. As its grey, Gothic-style buildings sprang up on Chicago's dreary South Side, notable minds had nocked to it: Philosopher John Dewey, Economist Thorstein Veblen, Archeologist James Henry Breasted. It was a place of exciting research, fired by the spirit of scientific inquiry and by the yeasty pragmatism of John Dewey. "The result...
...news was worse than expected. Last week Britain's Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank reported that his Odeon Theatres, Ltd. and subsidiaries had lost $9,380,000 on moviemaking in fiscal 1949. Things were so bad, said the man who has been making 50% of Britain's motion pictures, that he might be forced to stop all production after June...