Word: rankings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hullabaloo over labor-reform legislation, it appears that someone has been overlooked. I refer to the rank-and-file unionist. Without his support, no union boss could afford the elaborate retinue of thugs, lobbyists, and shysters that Hoffa commands. Yet the union members never question Jimmy's methods, so long as he gets results...
...crumpled, 39-year-old Brigadier General Amkha Soukhavong, the Laotian army's regional commander, sat on the porch of his headquarters in Samneua City, peeling litchi nuts and staring morosely at the mildewed Roman Catholic church across the street. For French-trained General Amkha, who still holds the rank of captain in the French army, it was a nightmare war. What news of the front he could get came from runners, a handful of Red prisoners and an endless stream of refugees :women with babies, men burdened with mattresses and sewing machines, a ten-year-old boy toting...
...Congress welcomed its three new members from the 50th state. In the flip of a silver dollar to decide whether Republican Hiram L. Fong, first man of Chinese ancestry to sit in Congress, or Democrat Oren E. Long would rank as Hawaii's senior Senator, Long called heads and lost. In a draw to determine which would get the long term, Fong won again. Over in the House, Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, World War II hero whose right arm was shattered by a German grenade in Italy, took his seat as Hawaii's sole Representative, became the first...
...Pollock, 60, commanding the FMF in the Atlantic, and Merrill B. Twining, 56, commandant of the Marine Corps School at Quantico (and younger brother of Air Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). Upon retirement under the Tombstone Law, all three will achieve four-star rank (but not necessarily an increase in retirement...
...Pointedly skipping major cities (where he would have had to deal with intransigent French colons), he barnstormed army units throughout Algeria, hopping from place to place by helicopter and DC-3. He chatted with hundreds of officers and noncoms, ate all his meals with officers of colonel's rank or under. Often he would ask a local commander to come along for a confidential chat on a helicopter trip to the next stop. At Orleansville he had a long talk with Paratrooper General Jacques Massu...