Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other able men would stay on. ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman, who has Cabinet rank, emerged from a White House conference and told reporters: "The President told me he wanted me to stay on the job. I didn't ask him-he told me." Was that agreeable? Said Hoffman: "Whether it's agreeable or not, I'm staying. I have no complaints but I like my California climate better...
...players, who helped rank Harvard second in the Ivy League standings, were voted positions on the team at a meeting of New England coaches. High-scoring players like Don Louria and Whoop Batchelder did not make the champion team...
Seattle taxi drivers speak of him sourly. Since 1944, Beck has kept them under local trusteeship (a state in which the rank & file cannot initiate meetings) as punishment for holding a wildcat strike. Many teamsters complain that they have no voice in the union's affairs...
...afford to pay well. It pays neither rent nor taxes, accepts no ads, and rakes in (along with its sister periodicals) $5,000,000 a year. But few U.S. newsmen, accustomed to the hustle of city rooms, would feel at home in the Zeitung. Every staffer above the rank of cub has his own office, where he dictates stories and headlines to his secretary. Editor Jack Fleischer, able predecessor of Ken Foss, tried to introduce U.S. methods to the Zeitung but didn't get far. The editor won the right to read the copy (it used to go direct...
...Those who have thought of him as primarily a placator or referee of jealous, bickering commanders, a benevolent military chairman of the board, will have to revise their estimate. A lieutenant colonel in the Regular Army when the infantry waded ashore in Africa (though a lieutenant general by wartime rank), Ike really ran the show...