Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the Chancellor of the Exchequer "opens" his Budget in the House of Commons, because ever since 1917 Britons, great and small, though ruled for the most part by Conservatives, have paid out staggering income taxes. Outstanding British taxpayers like Lord Leverhulme (soap), Lord Wakefield (oil), Joseph Rank (flour & shipping) and Lord Nuffield (motors) are relieved of as much as 66% of their incomes by the Government, and it was these who faced the 1937 Budget with most fear and trembling...
...became inexcusable to be ignorant of the fact that there are two men named Smith on the three-man Board. For with certification of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act by the Supreme Court (TIME, April 19), NLRB stepped out from under its cloud into the full sunlight of rank and power...
...cane plantation and likes to recall how he spurned his chances then to enrich himself dishonestly. Next year he entered the army as an infantry private. He was smart enough to study shorthand, which enabled him to win a competitive army examination and become a court stenographer with the rank of sergeant. Four years ago Sergeant Batista was scribbling obscurely at courts martial when Franklin Roosevelt sent his friend Benjamin Sumner Welles as Ambassador to see whether the ominous groundswell against ruthless President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado could be oiled over without a Revolution...
Both first and second eights will oppose the Orange and Black and M.I.T. on Lake Carnegie in Princeton. The crews will work out there twice today. Tom Bolles has developed one of the strongest eights in recent years to wear the Crimson, and they rank slight favorites to take the unknown Tiger eight into camp...
...recent vulgar vituperation in the Nazi German press against Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, New York's mayor, is not the first strafing he has received from Teutons. "The Little Flower" rose to the rank of major in the U. S. air service during the war, winning two decorations for his work with bombing squadrons on the Italian front. He was dropping bombs on Austrians and Hungarians in whose country he had served as a young consular agent for six years before...