Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rollins is proud of Sally Stearns (TIME, June 22), who coxswained our varsity crew when it beat Manhattan College on the Harlem. The first girl coxswain that ever steered an intercollegiate race won her "R" by sheer merit and not by way of a publicity stunt. For three years she never missed a clay at the crew house, substituting for male coxswains whenever they didn't show up. Last year she was the best coxswain available, but the coach and Athletic Committee feared ridicule from "turned-up-nosed" males if she was permitted to participate in what had always...
...civil service is good for the Federal Government, why not let's have some in Kansas?" barked he, moving that funds be appropriated to administer the State's civil service law, a dead letter since 1920. Promptly voting down his proposal, Republicans indignantly asserted that the merit system was so firmly established in Kansas that no law was needed to enforce...
...contests-to announce which the Committee did not even bother, when the loudspeakers broke down, to furnish an amateur badge-wearer with a second-hand megaphone-were in athletic merit probably equal, if not superior to those which a cosmopolitan crowd of 100.000 will witness in Berlin's Olympic Stadium next month. In twelve of the scheduled events, the U.S. has competitors who have made better times or distances than any European rivals. In the five remaining events, the entrants at the Randalls Island meet were, by & large, as competent as the entrants in the same events will...
From dazzled Austrians, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Bulgars and Hungarians, through whose central banks Dr. Schacht had swept like a meteor last week, deigning to dine with premiers, having audience with King George of Greece, Tsar Boris of Bulgaria and accepting the Hungarian Cross of Merit, First Class, from the fingers of Regent Horthy, correspondents gleaned Schacht facts...
...currency" he added "convertible into gold . . . [but not] unless it can be done without penalizing our domestic economy." To the declaration for extension of civil service, he added a special dart aimed at Postmaster Farley, weakest joint in Franklin Roosevelt's armor: "There should be included within the merit system every position in the administrative service below the rank of assistant secretaries of major departments and agencies, and . . . this inclusion should cover the entire Post Office Department...