Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-six President of the United States: A Typical AmericanE. R. Du Mont, 1901 - 413 pages |
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Page 93
... spoils system . It would have been more in accordance with the end aimed at to have employed the term " merit system . " For it was a known fact that most of the offices were por- tioned out to party followers on the basis of their ...
... spoils system . It would have been more in accordance with the end aimed at to have employed the term " merit system . " For it was a known fact that most of the offices were por- tioned out to party followers on the basis of their ...
Page 175
... spoils system , the application in political life of the degrading doctrine that to the victor belong the spoils , produces corruption and degradation . The man who is in politics for the offices might just as well be in politics for ...
... spoils system , the application in political life of the degrading doctrine that to the victor belong the spoils , produces corruption and degradation . The man who is in politics for the offices might just as well be in politics for ...
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... spoils system , a hundred men would have been turned out , under the Civil Service law , as administered under our supervision , ninety - nine men were kept in . " In his fight for the extension of the merit system Mr. Roosevelt ...
... spoils system , a hundred men would have been turned out , under the Civil Service law , as administered under our supervision , ninety - nine men were kept in . " In his fight for the extension of the merit system Mr. Roosevelt ...
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS | 5 |
A TYPICAL AMERICAN introduction by OPIE READ | 25 |
THEODORE ROOSEVELT | 33 |
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