Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York harbor last week aboard the 5. S. American Legion sailed Hugh Simons Gibson, Grade A career diplomat, to take over his new job as Ambassador to Brazil. With him went his dark, distinguished wife, sorry to leave her native Belgium where her husband had been Ambassador for six years. Mr. Gibson used to be President Hoover's Man-About-Europe until replaced by President Roosevelt's Norman Hezekiah Davis...
...study the President's order closely Democratic leaders throughout the land groaned in loud dismay at what they took to mean the summary loss of their best patronage. But still with them was a helpful device known as the Rule of Three. Postmasterships are divided into four grades depending upon the annual receipts of their offices: first class, receipts above $40,000; second class, $8,000 to $40,000; third class, $1,500 to $8,000; fourth class, below $1,500. At the last counting there were 1,122 first-class postal jobs, 3,425 second-class...
...rules for registration had been issued only the day before and those who filed did so merely on the general terms of the law.* Each registration, filed in triplicate with exhibits, was a fair sized volume in itself. By comparison an income tax return was a venture in first grade arithmetic. The staff of the Trade Commission's new Bureau of Securities was faced with a mountain of work. Nonetheless they set to, eagerly seeking errors in the applications, promptly found some unaccompanied by checks or by checks uncertified...
...about time that some men stopped classifying us as high-grade morons only interested in the recipes on the woman's page of our local newspapers...
...enter a new competition for liquidity by calling loans, selling securities, churning up fresh deflation. More serious, there are undoubtedly many small State banks which cannot pass the necessary examination no matter how hard they try to liquidate their assets. When the public learns that they cannot make the grade, runs may start, another crop of bank failures may develop...