Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon secret written ballot the Court sentences the accused to be suspended from rank, command and duty, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances, for five years...
...name spelled "Mahnider." (How many thousand others had their names misspelled?) He protested to Adjutant General Robert Davis. Orders were issued in the Bonus Bureau that misspellings would lead to demotions. Moreover the supervisor who passed the certificate of "Hanford Mahnider" was reduced to a correspondence clerk, in rank and salary...
...general alarm was sent out for his arrest by the New York police . . . to the rank and file of the police department he is known as "Bum." . . . He faced 22 years of prison life, including five years of an unexpired sentence in Auburn . . . clever and dangerous . . . handcuffs . . . a heavy blow from behind . . . two patrolmen . . . escape...
Henry Allen Cooper, aged supporter of LaFollette, he who nominated LaFollette at the Republican Convention two Junes ago, venerable and respected, was allowed to remain on the Foreign Affairs Committee but deprived of all seniority rank, which would soon have made him its chairman...
That night the concierges of numerous hotels explained. The Duke of Aosta, gracious cugino (cousin) of His Majesty Vittorio Emanuele, had merely been greeted with the honors due his rank when he called upon famed Soldier-Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio at the latter's villa beside the lake...