Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-sixth President of the United States : a Typical AmericanAmerican citizen Company, 1901 - 413 pages |
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Page 42
... secured the passage of the civil service law in New York , a measure that has been the sword and shield of all those who since have been engaged in the work of purifying the politics of the State . Following his retirement from the ...
... secured the passage of the civil service law in New York , a measure that has been the sword and shield of all those who since have been engaged in the work of purifying the politics of the State . Following his retirement from the ...
Page 55
... secured must be in large part chargeable with the close - knit intellectual fiber which his manhood has revealed . It was the substantial structure upon which his later fancy could build , just as his acquired physical strength formed a ...
... secured must be in large part chargeable with the close - knit intellectual fiber which his manhood has revealed . It was the substantial structure upon which his later fancy could build , just as his acquired physical strength formed a ...
Page 89
... secured the enactment of a civil service law . He was one of that company of reformers in both great parties , of which George William Curtis , Senator Edmunds and Grover Cleveland , the latter then governor of New York , AN ASSEMBLYMAN .
... secured the enactment of a civil service law . He was one of that company of reformers in both great parties , of which George William Curtis , Senator Edmunds and Grover Cleveland , the latter then governor of New York , AN ASSEMBLYMAN .
Page 90
... secured an investigation of the county offices of the State , by which it was discovered that the principal officials in New York county were drawing nearly a million dollars a year in fees , while discharging no duties whatever ; and ...
... secured an investigation of the county offices of the State , by which it was discovered that the principal officials in New York county were drawing nearly a million dollars a year in fees , while discharging no duties whatever ; and ...
Page 167
... secured without wrong - doing ; that every end toward which statesmen might justly strive was attainable along the paths of honesty , fidelity and truth . He had no use for principles which would not admit of realization in practice ...
... secured without wrong - doing ; that every end toward which statesmen might justly strive was attainable along the paths of honesty , fidelity and truth . He had no use for principles which would not admit of realization in practice ...
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