Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike vote and walkout, U.S. educated Socialist Narain talked with the government. By Feb. 16, he told his railroad men that the government had granted a $3 monthly pay raise to low-paid employees and would consider other demands. The union leaders voted to postpone the strike. But some rank-&-filers wanted their full contract rights. The Communists grabbed their chance...
With prospects of a settlement dimmer than ever, other big unions talked of joining the printers' protest. Their common complaint: Peronista union bosses refused to negotiate for the raises which rank & filers thought they needed to meet the rising cost of living...
...Spanish Protestant, he said, "cannot hold official position in the government, nor can he rise to officer's rank in the army unless he conceals his religious beliefs. He is not allowed to practice his faith in public. The chapel he attends must not display any exterior evidence that it is a place of worship. It cannot advertise its existence-not even with a bulletin board. It cannot be listed in the public directories." According to Bigart, a Protestant clergyman "suffers much the same type of persecution as the Roman Catholic clergy endure in Communist Hungary," although he noted...
...rosy. The big gun in the salve of diversity, William E. Wiggin's weighty sociological analysis of the Jew at Harvard, seems to have little meaning. His statistics are interesting (if true); but just why he was impelled to write the article is unclear. That Harvard's Jewish students rank high scholastically, that they are active in extra-curricular groups, and that they are not in the clubs are facts well-known to those who care about them. It's a fine idea to run non-fiction research articles; but this reviewer cannot see the raison d'etre...
Britain's J. Arthur Rank, who suggested Eagle Lion's formation to U.S. Railroad-Juggler Robert R. Young. For British pictures the company has also developed an audience in 200 to 250 cities...