Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt wrote to the League of Women Voters: "It matters not what political party is in power by the elective will of the people, the Government functions for all; and there can be no question of greater moment, or broader effect than the maintenance, strengthening and extension of the merit system, established in the competitive principles of the Civil Service...
...Bank of France. Communists and Socialists, elated at the formation of a Left Centre Cabinet in succession to the Centre Cabinet of millionaire ex-Premier Pierre Laval, voiced their satisfaction through millionaire Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Said he: "In our eyes the Cabinet of M. Sarraut has the infinite merit that it is not headed by M. Laval." For the first time in French history the Communist Deputies, when a vote of confidence was asked, did not vote against the Government of France. Instead they abstained from voting at all. Confidence was voted by a majority...
...party machinery for the next election." Thus wrote Mr. Farley in July, 1933. Since that time the present administration has added over 234,000 employees to the direct full-time payroll of the Federal Government. Of this new personnel one in every 107 has been brought under the merit system; the other 106 are part of our new and greater spoils system...
...plan has been sufficiently applied to demonstrate tangible merit. Contemporary holders, many sources agree, have already contributed much to the college. The crucial test, of course, will be years hence when after-college records can be scrutinized with a critical eye. Meanwhile, whole-hearted support is due the program, because it has firm foundations in theory and in fact...
Showing much interest in college baseball, Collins stated that his scouts constantly watch Harvard players of merit with the hope of finding someone like Charlie Devens, "who," he said, "had a great baseball career before...