Word: subprefect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allowed in postoffices, and cigars had to be left in the entrance hall, but today you can go to the postoffice with your pipe in your mouth. ... In those days a deputy would call on the prefect of police with his hat in his hand, while today the subprefect meets the deputy at the railroad station and carries his bag. We Alsatians don't like that. It puts politics above the machinery of the state...