Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine Days a Queen (Gaumont British) is a sequel to Alexander Korda's famed The Private Life of Henry VIII, so close in general merit to its predecessor, that there seems no reason why the story cannot keep on chronologically up to and including Edward VIII. The royal panorama starts with Henry VIII (Frank Cellier) on his deathbed, cursing his courtiers and appointing his successor. Most formidable source of royal acrimony is Warwick (Cedric Hardwicke), "a man without conscience and without fear," who becomes the power behind the new throne. He does this by setting his rivals at sword...
Last week New Jersey's Commissioner of Education Charles H. Elliott upheld the School Board, rejected Principal Matteson's explanation that he had kept Carolyn McDavit after class to ask her to draw for the Scout magazine he edited so that it might win a Golden Quill merit badge...
...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 advance ... of the merit system . . . will never be undone...
Last June Governor Landon telegraphed the Republican National Convention that the entire Post Office Department, including the Postmaster General himself, should be placed under the merit system. Informed of the President's order last week, the Republican nominee remarked: "It shows the advantages of competition. I hope now he's made such a good start, he will extend...
...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 the merit system from 80% to 63%. A prime reason: in setting up emergency agencies the Administration short-circuited the Civil Service to get men quickly...