The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-fifth President of the United StatesG. Richards, 1903 - 391 pages |
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Page 71
... present generation is familiar . The effort to do away with it by an impersonal and disinterested machinery of appointment is a wholly modern idea , and not in any sense a reversion to the early practice of the Republic . ” Testimony of ...
... present generation is familiar . The effort to do away with it by an impersonal and disinterested machinery of appointment is a wholly modern idea , and not in any sense a reversion to the early practice of the Republic . ” Testimony of ...
Page 82
... present law and re - enact the old law , which was in force when the present Board took office , in May , 1895. The old law was far preferable to the present law . " The " enormous change for the better " was " due entirely to the Board ...
... present law and re - enact the old law , which was in force when the present Board took office , in May , 1895. The old law was far preferable to the present law . " The " enormous change for the better " was " due entirely to the Board ...
Page 84
... present Board took office , the Force was honeycombed with corruption . Every species of purveyor of vice was allowed to ply his or her trade unmolested , partly in consideration of paying blackmail to the Police , partly in ...
... present Board took office , the Force was honeycombed with corruption . Every species of purveyor of vice was allowed to ply his or her trade unmolested , partly in consideration of paying blackmail to the Police , partly in ...
Page 93
... presents them as was done in the Police and Civil Service investigations , and later , in the affairs of the State . That such a personal force as that of the Twenty - Fifth President should have been called for positively by the ...
... presents them as was done in the Police and Civil Service investigations , and later , in the affairs of the State . That such a personal force as that of the Twenty - Fifth President should have been called for positively by the ...
Page 118
... present , strikes us , as it is bound to if we stay here at the height of the sickness season , August , and the beginning of September . Quarantine against malarial fever is like quarantine against the toothache . All of us are certain ...
... present , strikes us , as it is bound to if we stay here at the height of the sickness season , August , and the beginning of September . Quarantine against malarial fever is like quarantine against the toothache . All of us are certain ...
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