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...office after a noncompetitive civil service examination, or 2) a postal employe with a civil service rating, likewise after a noncompetitive examination, or 3) the person making the highest mark in an open competitive examination conducted by the Civil Service Commission. To qualify, a candidate must have been a bona fide patron of the post office in question for at least one year, must be under 67 unless he is already a postal employe or a war veteran. Commented Wyoming's Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, co-author of the defeated June bill: "I feel confident that this...
...Here the uncontradicted evidence shows that the plaintiff is actuated by the bona fide intent to give each and every patron a valid option to buy a particular dog. If such patrons choose to flaunt [sic] his good intentions and buy options to line their pockets with unholy gains they cannot thereby make a criminal out of him. Were the rule otherwise, every cotton and commodity broker or dealer in the land would be in jail before nightfall. Does anyone suppose that the delicatessen dealer who buys an option on 500 bales of cotton ever intends to take delivery...
...Guardsmen went right ahead and picked as their favorite son Robert Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati, elder son of the late Chief Justice. Candidate Borah stumped vigorously in the northern portion of the State, made a loud noise against false-front candidacies. Candidate Taft canvassed the State like a bona fide candidate, although Ohio freely figured that his delegates really stood for Governor Landon, Publisher Knox and Senator Vandenberg...
...oversee the setting up in Alberta of Social Credit. This tended to leave stranded the rotund, frog-eyed school principal and radiorating lay preacher William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart who won Alberta's last election and its Premiership by promising $25 per month in Social Credit to every bona fide citizen of the province. Premier Aberhart, whose detractors now derisively call him "Abie," spent the week getting off to Major Douglas pious cablegrams urging him to reconsider...
...Philosophy A has had a huge enrollment principally because of the distribution requirement of at least one course in Mathematics or Philosophy. Naturally owing to the abolition of this requirement, the enrollment has fallen heavily, but there still remain over 200 students in the course who presumably have a bona fide interest in the subject...