Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weary rank-&-filers similarly united at Corpus Christi, Texas last month and at Stockton, Calif, two weeks ago. When the movement spread to Sacramento, President Bill Hutcheson of the A. F. of L. carpenters threatened to revoke the local carpenters' charter if they joined the new council. C. I. O. West Coast Director Harry Bridges applauded the trend, declared action for peace must come from the bottom...
...operating at Yenan, "capital" of the northern, Communist-held territory. At Yenan now are the Anti-Japanese University, the North Shensi Academy (training school for guerrilla-war organizers), the Marxist & Leninist University, the Lo Shun Art Academy, the School of Dramatic Art (directed by Shanghai's top-rank cinemactress). There were few buildings in Yenan to house the schools but in the hard-packed loess hillsides, students gouged cave classrooms and dormitories (see cut). There 4,000 men, 1,000 women, more than there are at Oxford, study Chinese Problems, Military Science, Guerrilla Warfare, listen to lectures...
...other hand, if Boss Stalin has at last concluded that Nikolai Yezhov's drastic thinning of the top-rank Soviet administrators, generals and diplomats was itself a peculiarly subtle kind of sabotage. then Comrade Yezhov's removal last week was the beginning of his end. Every previous Commissar of Internal Affairs has eventually fallen victim to his successor...
Protest began coming in to Roger B. Merriman '96, Master of Eliot House when a small group of Eliot House graduates who attended the play last night telephoned the Master and termed the play presented by the House dramatic society "rank...
Three fish, rumored to have brains so large that they rank second only to those of man and the anthropoids, and which are believed to have a higher I.Q. than any other species of finny denizen, including guppies, have just arrived at the Marine of Geographical Exploration, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Thomas F. Nett, Jr., new head of the department...