Word: third-class
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...that the U. S. would never recognize his government, told him that he must resign. At such personal encounters with Latins Mr. Whitehouse is rather good. In Paris and later at Madrid he handled successfully, as counselor of embassy, much tougher men than a No. 3 president of a third-class power...
...Pardon, Your Excellency! I cannot undertake to receive such a note from a third-class power...
...organ of the Soviet Government, saw the note as "adding insult to Stimson's meddling injury," denounced the "cynical insolence of the Rumanian Government, whose troops and gendarmes still occupy our Province of Bessarabia." Happily for Rumanians, they were prevented by strict censorship from hearing that they are "third-class," from knowing that their eight-year-old King Mihai has been grossly insulted, his honor sullied, his puissance mocked...
...Florence, Kan., Shamus O'Brien, postmaster, was officially told that he must sell $800 worth of stamps by Jan. 1 or have his salary cut and have his office degraded to third-class. Citizens despaired; a third-class post office means no city mail delivery. In Chicago Ben Minturn, onetime Florentine schoolmate of O'Brien, read of his friend's predicament, wrote a letter, enclosed a check for $1,000, ordered $900 in 2 cent stamps, $100 in 5 cent stamps, saved the day. Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash...
Prayers, by 50 passengers wearing life preservers, were offered from the third-class deck of the Roma during a storm so violent that the ship's propellers were lifted out of the water and spun around jarringly. The Roma weathered the storm, reached Manhattan safely...