Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honorary John Harvard scholarships, awarded each year to Upperclassmen who are in Group I, the highest scholastic rank, but who do not receive scholarships with stipends, have just been conferred on the following thirteen students...
...tried a double maneuver, appealing over the heads of the C. I. O. high command to the C. I. O. rank & file, with the idea of driving wedges between...
Unit v. Branch. The A. B. A.'s avoidance of New Deal criticism goes back three years to its convention in Washington when the rank & file were hot for fu mination against liberal finance, but the big banks forced through a policy of passing the peace pipe to President Roosevelt (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Next year in convention at New Orleans this same issue boiled over in an action almost unprecedented in A. B. A. history-a hot contest for election of officers. By A. B. A. procedure each year's president is actually selected two years ahead...
...Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor, duly confirmed by George VI in that rank, was slated to be received by Der Führer and Chancellor Adolf Hitler at his Bavarian snuggery on Oct. 22, to sail with the Duchess from Cherbourg on the Bremen on Nov. 6 for Manhattan...
...chapters are to reach a further climax, are to be torn off unfinished or peter out in a dull decline, time alone can tell. But no matter what is to happen to Hemingway, U. S. readers last week could reassure themselves that U. S. writers still have a front rank and that he is still...