Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Count Ciano is an ace only as usage has pinned the title to such able airmen as Charles A. Lindbergh. Henceforth TIME will adhere to current military standards, bestow the rank only upon flyers who down five enemy planes and prove...
...find any news tomorrow, let the Crimson help them out. We'll say, for instance, if we're approached nicely, that Harvard plenipotentiaries bribed the Carnegie Foundation to put the University at the head of their list; that, as a matter of fact, as everybody knows, Harvard's true rank rests somewhere between a Junior High School and Notre Dame; that there is a regular market in Harvard, between Professors and Students, for grades in their courses ranging from 20 cents for a D misses in Government to $ for a Phi Beta Kappa...
...Moscow occurred last week an extraordinary change in Government. It was as if in Washington Attorney General Homer S. Cummings had abruptly been created "Cabinet-Minister-General," with six bureau chiefs of the Department of Justice becoming "Cabinet-Ministers-of-the-First Rank." Such a change in Washington would mean that U. S. citizens were being handed over to be governed...
...haired and 46, he was born in Tokyo, son of a Methodist missionary. Four dollars a week as a lithographer helped put him through art school in Manhattan. He went to France with the A.E.F. camouflage service, was attached to innumerable artillery regiments, never rose above sergeant's rank...
Died. H. R. H. Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary, 67, sister of George V; of stomach hemorrhage; at Coppins, Iver, Buckinghamshire. Princess Victoria's retired life and spinsterhood were popularly attributed to an early love affair with a man whom her rank forbade her to marry...