Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were recently expelled from it for that high crime. These two are LEV DAVIDOVITCH TROTSKY and GRIGORY EVSEEVITCH ZINOVIEV. Their names have been among the best known in Soviet history and there are dark reasons why they may become so again. Of the 98 expelled, last week, three rank as at least second string great men in Russia: 1) Christian Rakovsky, recently recalled as Ambassador to France at the request of that nation, which feared him as a tireless fomenter of "The Revolution of the World Proletariat"; 2) Karl Radek, probably the most brilliant publicist of the third international (bureau...
...said he felt quite well, thank you. The War Department was not so sure. It was said the War Department was anxious to be rid of him because he had agitated for higher rank for his comrades in arms and prayer (TIME. Oct. 17). Upon this the War Department did not comment but ordered him to Walter Reed Hospital for examination. He went unwillingly-and last week Col. John T. Axton, Chief of Army Chaplains, was retired as of next April. Secretary of War Davis wrote him a letter expressing regret that he had been found "physically incapacitated for active...
Less than a year ago she was sent to Mexico City by the Soviet government with the diplomatic rank of an "envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary." President Plutarco Elias Calles and other gallant Mexicans bowed as they kissed the hand of the first Ministress to Mexico (TIME, Jan. 3, 1927). Suddenly, a few months afterward she was recalled...
Meredith was, and still is, the acknowledge king of middle-distance runners. Bingham, now Director of Athletics at the University, was a half miler of the first rank...
...first year handled $9,490,621 worth of securities. Its monthly transaction now approach half a billion dollars ($429,298,882 last September, the end of its fiscal year). The industrial development of the entire Pacific coast has helped the 66 exchange members. California's manufacturers rank eighth in value for the U. S.; its agricultural products third. Oil stocks have heretofore constituted a great portion of the members' business. Now the exchange seeks more varied securities. A recent sale of a seat brought...