Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States: A Typical AmericanS. Stone, 1901 - 413 pages |
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... merit system , and its advance from there to adoption in national legislation was immensely facilitated . He secured an investigation of the county offices of the State , by which it was discovered that the principal officials in New ...
... merit system , and its advance from there to adoption in national legislation was immensely facilitated . He secured an investigation of the county offices of the State , by which it was discovered that the principal officials in New ...
Page 93
... 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 party ...
... 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 party ...
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... merit system , and his enmity to the spoilsmen had won him the objurgations of press and party on numberless occasions . He brought to the discharge of his new duties all the energy exhibited in his legislative career ... MERIT SYSTEM . 177.
... merit system , and his enmity to the spoilsmen had won him the objurgations of press and party on numberless occasions . He brought to the discharge of his new duties all the energy exhibited in his legislative career ... MERIT SYSTEM . 177.
Contents
POEM by GRACE DUFFIE BOYLAN | 5 |
A TYPICAL AMERICAN introduction by OPIE READ | 25 |
THEODORE ROOSEVELT | 33 |
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