Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...violence continued, Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert rushed to Dayton and persuaded union officials to throw in the towel. But the rank & file electrical workers defied their leaders, voted to remain on strike. Herbert then played his trump: he called out the National Guard to maintain order at the plant. This week, pickets still marched, but Univis apparently would stay open for business...
...final words of the book, spoken between Scobie's wife and his priest, seem to indicate where Author Greene's feelings lie: "Father Rank said, 'It may seem an odd thing to say-when a man's as wrong as he was-but I think, from what I saw of him, that he really loved God.' 'He certainly loved no one else,' she said. 'And you may be in the right of it there, too,' Father Rank replied...
...Frame. Then Hoffman sat down to drive his points home to the men who could act on them. Britain was represented by Sir Stafford Cripps, Belgium by Premier Paul-Henri Spaak (who is also OEEC chairman), the other Marshall Plan countries by men of cabinet or ambassadorial rank. The U.S. people, Hoffman told them, expected the European nations to carry out their pledges of joint action. He asked for a coordinated, four-year master plan. Said Hoffman: "Each participating nation must face up to readjustments . . . These readjustments cannot be made along the old separatist lines." European recovery "cannot...
Another group highlighted the early work of Italy's only remaining first-rank painter: Giorgio de Chirico. The aging genius, who long ago ditched surrealism to imitate dead masters, was embarrassed, not pleased by the honor. He angrily sued the Biennial Committee for displaying his earlier indiscretions (which vastly outshine what he has done since). It was all part of a dirty plot to encourage the "commercial maneuvers" of the big art dealers, he said. He also wrote a letter to the press declaring that "It is simply ridiculous and injurious to call 'art' all these miscarriages...
...black & white film will be processed daily by Rank and delivered to newsreels for editing before their ordinary biweekly releases. (Says Movietonews Editor Gerald Sanger: "It'll be like D-day all over again.") The Technicolor will be processed on a 24-hour basis. There will be 16 separate versions of it, each highlighting the athletes of a different nation and each in the language of that nation. (Red Barber, Ted Husing and Bill Stern will handle the American language.) The Games end Aug. 14; the world premiere of Rank's XIV Olympiad-The Glory of Sport will...