Word: deservingness
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But one problem came to meet him more than half way: the problem of personnel. Among his first callers was Indiana's smooth, handsome, ambitious Governor Paul Vories McNutt. The reason for Governor McNutt's call puzzled no one. One of the ablest politicians of the Midwest, soon...
Last December Postmaster General Farley learned that Postmistress Harrington's term was due to expire in January, listened sympathetically to a Highland Falls, N. Y. bigwig who wished to appoint a deserving female Democrat in her stead. The news leaked out. Opposition from all quarters, especially from U. S...
The Civil Service Commission, headed by Democrat Harry B. Mitchell, professed great enthusiasm at this latest Roosevelt reform. Cocky Republicans claimed their attacks on the President and "General" Farley were solely responsible for bringing it about. But wiseacres pointed out that the order could not possibly embarrass the Democratic machine...
An old and familiar complaint against the New Deal is that it has virtually wrecked the Civil Service system by loading deserving Democrats into all sorts of good jobs. A prime statistic: in three years Roosevelt, Farley & Co. have made 150,000 straight political appointments, have reduced Federal employment under...
(3 of 6) is a personal friend of my family I can say, with authority, that Ekizian is NOT a Turk. Thank goodness! I am ignorant of the source where newshounds acquired that erroneous and misleading fact of bald-headed Ekizian's being a Turk. I am certain that...