Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verdict, held out adamantly for acquittal. His reason: the U.S. Government had failed to make its circumstantial evidence stick. Though Jimmy was free to go (on $2,500 bond), he was by no means out of the courtroom woods. Ahead lie: 1) outcome of a suit by 13 rank-and-file Teamsters, who maintain that Jimmy was illegally chosen president of the union last Oct. 4, 2) disposition of a federal perjury indictment, 3) the certainty that the Government will take him to trial again on the conspiracy charge...
...emphasis on price and style was a major preoccupation for the host of new men moving up to top rank. At year's end Westinghouse, whose "Shape of Tomorrow" pushed its sales of major appliances up 15% v. a 4% drop for the industry, rewarded Executive Vice President Mark W. Cresap Jr., 47, one of "Shape's" prime movers, with the presidency; longtime Boss Gwilym Price remained chairman. Every industry looked for new competitive talent. To exploit new markets at home, John L. Burns, 49, took over at Radio Corp. of America as Frank Fosom neared retirement; with...
...African bishops in Africa. Many of them know them all or most of them by name. Though this may not mean any appreciable increase in converts, it does show that Negroes have great pleasure in knowing that any of their number may reach to bishop's rank if he has the attitude of virtue and the education...
...Norwegian nightingale was born north of the Arctic Circle, and would probably never have had a singing career if the Norwegian army's general staff had not been quartered on her father's farm during the war. Not knowing how to awaken a man of the rank of General Otto Ruge, Norway's commander in chief, Aase's mother asked her 17-year-old daughter to sit at the organ and sing him awake. Ruge was so impressed that he urged her to study. Since then she has risen to opera stardom in Europe. Once, following...
...interested him, and not so well in others. He refused to bow down to the college fetich of classical studies. Even on his entrance examinations, he appears to have chosen that course of requirements which contained the minimum of classics and the maximum of mathematics, for on the freshman rank list he is among the very few members of the class who were in the advanced section in the latter subject. He took one third of his courses in the modern languages, and a large number of courses in natural history...