Word: officialdom
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...gain their own freedom, crossed the seas and fought successfully for ours, Poland and America have been firm friends. It was with anxiety and resentment that Americans watched the advance of the Red army upon the Polish borders; anxiety for the courageous little State, resentment that our own officialdom should do no more than write another note to Moscow. But, thanks to the fighting qualities of the Poles, and to timely artillery assistance from the French, Poland is, for the present at least, out of danger...
...employee--was, of all nations, Czaristic Russia. Under the "Tchin," or semimilitary hierarchy instituted by Peter the Great and in force up to the revolution, a Russian college professor had the rank and salary of a lieutenant-colonel. Evan in Germany, where a similar, if less rigid, standardization of officialdom prevailed, the professor's rating was that of a major only. --New York Tribune...