American Boys' Life of Theodore RooseveltLothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, 1906 - 336 pages |
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Page 79
... Civil Service was again being agitated . Theodore Roose- velt was a warm advocate of the merit system , and knowing this , President Harri- son appointed him , in 1889 , a Civil Service Commissioner , and this office he held for six ...
... Civil Service was again being agitated . Theodore Roose- velt was a warm advocate of the merit system , and knowing this , President Harri- son appointed him , in 1889 , a Civil Service Commissioner , and this office he held for six ...
Page 80
Edward Stratemeyer. state that civil service here applies to the thousands of persons who work for the government , such as post - office clerks , letter carriers , clerks in the various departments at Washington , like the Treasury ...
Edward Stratemeyer. state that civil service here applies to the thousands of persons who work for the government , such as post - office clerks , letter carriers , clerks in the various departments at Washington , like the Treasury ...
Page 81
... Civil Service Reform , " in which he re- views much of the work done . In this essay , among many other things , he says : - " No republic can permanently endure when its politics are corrupt and base ; and the spoils system , - the ...
... Civil Service Reform , " in which he re- views much of the work done . In this essay , among many other things , he says : - " No republic can permanently endure when its politics are corrupt and base ; and the spoils system , - the ...
Page 82
... civil service bitterly , and even those who might have been expected to help often held back , fearing they would lose their own popularity . Yet on the other hand , some members of Congress upheld the Com- mission nobly , and when ...
... civil service bitterly , and even those who might have been expected to help often held back , fearing they would lose their own popularity . Yet on the other hand , some members of Congress upheld the Com- mission nobly , and when ...
Page 85
... CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER - NOTWITHSTANDING the great amount of labor involved as a Civil Service Commis- sioner , Theodore Roosevelt did not forego the pleasures of the hunt , and in 1891 he made an extended trip to the Shoshone ...
... CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER - NOTWITHSTANDING the great amount of labor involved as a Civil Service Commis- sioner , Theodore Roosevelt did not forego the pleasures of the hunt , and in 1891 he made an extended trip to the Shoshone ...
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