Word: second-class
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...other political parties have claimed for years that the interests of the 9,200,000 refugees in Western Germany were "adequately protected" by them. Refugees thought differently. In crowded Schleswig-Holstein, where refugees constitute nearly 40% of the population, they finally organized to protest against their status as "second-class citizens." The entrance of organized refugees from the East into German politics had long been feared. Now it had arrived, and it promised to become one of the most disturbing factors in West German politics...
Weisman a version of the dispute is that he bought a return ticket from France on the condition that it be a second-class passage; he says that he went abroad on this promise and that University's Paris agent confirmed his second-class return ticket...
Bloomberg contends that in June before they left, the Weismans merely placed an application with a deposit; that they were then told that second-class tickets were not available; that they went abroad knowing that fact, and that the company agent in Europe obtained first-class tickets for them which they first refused, then accepted, and finally sold for tickets on the freighter...
...support separate Radcliffe extra-curricular activities. But since it realizes that girls may not stick with Annex groups if they can join corresponding Harvard organizations, it wishes to prevent the Harvard groups from having Radcliffe members. It also fears that Radcliffe members of Harvard organizations will have a second-class citizen status, and will actually be "used" by the Harvard groups...
...Senate finally began doing something about the Government's long-under paid hired hands. Convinced at last that the U.S. could not get first-class service for second-class salaries, it voted some $476 million a year in pay boosts for the 1,600,000 members of the armed forces and 1,400,000 Government employees. With only perfunctory appeals to economy, the Senate approved...