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...take "an open competitive examination to test his fitness." The "examination" required him to answer a questionnaire about his business experience. Retained, however, was the old Harding Rule of Three, whereby the party in power could always put its partisans into jobs. The two major changes in the 1933 edict effected by last week's order were to make the civil service examinations actual, transform the Rule of Three into a Rule...
Although it was impossible to find out last night how many students would be affected by the Nazi edict, it is believed that Ernst Teves '36, who has just returned to Germany, will be among those drafted...
...Nicholas in Manhattan. Said the Archbishop last week: "In some ways the Church has more freedom in Russia now than it had under the Tsars. Then the Church was the means through which the Tsars ruled, indirectly at least. The preaching of the clergy was censored by edict of the Tsar and nonconforming prelates were imprisoned in dank and frigid Solovetsky Monastery on an island in the White Sea. The clergy in Russia today are not so poor as you might think. Not long ago I received a letter from a priest who wanted some new parts for his Buick...
...last week when his Press contact man, Assistant Secretary "Steve" Early, issued an order that hereafter all White House photographs of the President must be made by cameras on tripods, that all shutters and bulbs must click and flash in unison and not until the President is posed. That edict marked the last step in President Roosevelt's recent retreat under a barrage of press photography...
...game of 1885 was omitted through Faculty edict barring football with other colleges...