Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today there are still Nazis in Spain, but only rich ones. The rank and file were sacrificed to the Allies at the end of the war. There are some excellent restaurants and plenty of food for these big shot Nazis and their Spanish counterparts. But the people are ill-housed and poorly fed. The disease rate is fantastic and those that aren't diseased are squirming with fear...
Michigan and Alabama are not even in the running, according to the Williamson dope sheet. They rank nineteenth and twentieth, respectively...
...returned as Socialist Premier in the Moscow-created provisional government. To repay the Reds he hatched an inept, ill-timed and abortive plot to merge his Socialists with the Communists. His blundering displeased the Communists; his intent angered the Socialists. Osubka-Morawski was demoted from Premier to the rank of Minister of Public Administration. Communist displeasure deepened when he snatched a choice government apartment coveted by Secret Police Boss Stanislaw Radkiewicz...
British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank was probably wishing that his gifted director, David (Brief Encounter) Lean, had not been quite so conscientious in copying Dickens and his illustrator, George Cruikshank. Director Lean's Great Expectations was hailed wherever it was shown as a superbly Dickensian cinema (TIME, May 26, 1947). In Fagin's case, Lean actually followed Cruikshank more closely than Dickens. The film never calls Fagin a Jew (Dickens rarely called him anything else), but he is faithfully villainous and repulsive-and unmistakably...
...Toronto, where Oliver Twist had been showing for three weeks, the theater manager noted little comment against Fagin, no unfavorable publicity, no effect on business. The Toronto Jewish Congress called on Rank representatives to complain, but later decided to drop the matter. "We feel," one was quoted as saying, that an Englishman has just as much right to complain about Bill Sikes." Could Rank quiet the din by reshooting some scenes in the $1,600,000 picture? It seemed impractical; there were too many shots of Fagin, and some members of the cast had scattered. Last week Rank announced that...