Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's Berlin dispatches. For their failure to halt the first woman who has publicly kissed Herr Hitler on the mouth since he became Chancellor three years ago, several of the Dictator's hulking Schutzstaffel guards were dismissed in disgrace last week, several more were demoted in rank and the number of Der Führer's guards was ordered doubled for all his future public appearances...
...Lincoln, Gerry McGeer won seats in the British Columbia Legislature and the Canadian House of Commons and the mayoralty of Vancouver with the biggest majority in history. Since the rise of Alberta's Social Credit Premier William Aberhart in the next province, he has lost his self-assumed rank of "Canada's Greatest Money Reformer." Last winter he invited every celebrity he could think of to Vancouver's two-month celebration, hoped for President Roosevelt. One invitation reached London's Lord Mayor Sir Percy Vincent, a retired millinery manufacturer who, at 68, has little...
...belts. Near one of the planes were found several knapsacks containing the khaki uniforms of Spain's Foreign Legion. The eleven aviators arrested by the French were all in civilian clothes, carried civilian Italian passports, but in their pockets were receipted pay checks giving their names and rank in the Italian Air Force. Later reports showed that the planes were part of a flight of 21 that had tried to fly non-stop the 780 miles from Italian Sardinia to Spanish rebel forces in Morocco. Eighteen of them reached Melilla, Spanish Morocco, successfully...
Since, after all, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Wilhelm Göring have the rank and dignity of statesmen, and since, after all, Charles Augustus Lindbergh is only a civilian aviator, the German Chancellor and the Prussian Premier did not go to Berlin to greet him, remained on rustic vacation in south Germany. They did announce that "in principle" they would receive the Colonel whenever he is in their vicinity, did send their personal aides to escort him, click heels and kiss Mrs. Lindbergh's hand...
...psychiatry and neurology, an active staff member of the London County Mental Hospital Service. A member in good standing of the British Medical Association, he was on its Executive Council in 1934-35. Nevertheless he has delved so deeply into Oriental mysticism that he has been elevated to the rank of Master-the-Fifth of the Great White Lodge of the Himalayas, which he considers to be a survival of a great university in Atlantis, "sunk by the selfish powers of mankind about the year 254,666 B.C." He believes that man has not only an astral body which leaves...