Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government officials in Washington. But as a Negro, he would be barred from most restaurants, hotels and clubs in Washington. Bunche had gotten his fill of Washington before (as a specialist in OSS and in a State Department desk job). While other officials of his rank lived in the more convenient Northwest section of the city, he built a home in the Southeast quarter. Around the corner from him was a public school, but it was for white children; Bunche had to send his two daughters to a Negro school nearly three miles away. There were other complications. Item: last...
...unpaid wheelhorses for cabinet ministers and junior ministers. One of their chief duties is to answer members' inquiries at question time, which means that they frequently know more about ministry affairs than the ministers themselves. A post as P.P.S. is usually considered the first step toward ministerial rank...
...Woman's Story (Rank; Universal-International) has been told often and better by Hollywood. In this ill-advised British-made version, the glamorous, irresolute heroine (Ann Todd) decides to marry wealth and security (Claude Rains), but she cannot bring herself to let go of romance (Trevor Howard...
Formerly Kobe College compared in rank with American junior colleges, but during the war the senior college department was entirely dropped. Now, in accordance with the plans for a new educational system, Japanese institutions of higher learning for women will be raised to the full standards of American women's colleges. Kobe is one of the five women's schools in Japan eligible for such a charter...
...young people who played the boy and the girl in "Torment" when it was filmed in 1946 have since been called forth to bigger things. Mai Zetterling, the girl, has been seen lately in several J. Arthur Rank productions, and the boy, Alf Kjellin, has spent the last couple of years in Hollywood in the employment of David O. Stelznick--making no pictures, but having his named changed every so often. That is a pity, because he is an actor of something more than promise. Miss Zetterling doesn't really have a great deal to do in the film...