Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fulfilled the civil service law: Senator Hale's speech...
Best single reference: Civil Service Record...
...Cleveland's pledges-(a) Guarded, limited and moderate; (b) to obey civil service law; (c) to make "no removals for partisan reasons solely": Transcript, Dec. 30, 1884; Nation, vol. 43, p. 68; Civil Service Record, June...
...President Cleveland has promised that under his administration civil service offices should not be the reward of partisan activity: Letter accepting nomination, Aug., 1884; letter to G. W. Curtis, Dec. 25, 1884; inaugural address, March 4, 1884; letter to heads of departments, July 14, 1886. (Extracts from all these can be found in Senator Hale's speech in the Senate, Jan. 12, 1888.) Text in the newspapers...
...expelled Republicans who were competent and who did not use their offices in "partisan activity": e. g., the Stone Case; Civil Service Record for August...