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Senator McKellar justifies his plan with the contention that civil service conflicts with the letter of the Constitution, thus making a direct attack on the backbone of the U. S. government. He passed unnoticed the Constitutional provision that "the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior offices as they think proper in the heads o departments." In view of the excellent record which the civil service has had in the past, it would be absurd to revert from a satisfactory procedure to old and inadequate methods...
...haired, softspoken, he was senior partner in the auctioneering firm founded by Richard Tattersall in 1766. Association of the name Tattersall with horse auctions and horsey people became so close that the name joined the language: a tattersall is 1) a horse market, 2) the alarmingly brilliant sort of vest some people wear around paddocks...
...minority clerk emeritus" thereafter, House employe for over 60 years; on his birthday; in Chevy Chase, Md. He went to work as a Congressional page when he was 13; Chester A. Arthur was President. As clerk, bald, trim-mustached, meticulous Page wore a tailcoat, a white-edged vest, and manners to match. He became an authority on Congressional procedure. The 100-word American's Creed, which he wrote in World War I, is still one of the Printing Office's bestsellers...
Some of the brigands of thought were led by Poet Théophile Gautier, who wore a scarlet satin vest and green silk trousers. Others wore "red vests like Marat's and collars like Robespierre's." Also present were Authors Balzac and Stendhal, Composer Hector Berlioz. Occasion for this intellectual incursion was the first night of Poet Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani. His young supporters had come (lugging ham, sausage, garlic, wine) to shout for their youthful hero, to see him upset the classical traditions of the French theater and win Round...
...onetime Federal Appeals Court judge, was doing K.P. duty in the Army reserve camp at Plattsburg the day he was appointed Assistant Secretary of War. In Washington he got an equally messy job: channeling the Army's swollen, muddied procurement program. He went to work in shirt sleeves, vest dangling, jaws chomping gum, his right arm working like a pump handle as he announced decisions. Soon he was promoted to Under Secretary. Judicial Bob Patterson's plodding, plugging methods have led him down many a blind alley. But they have also knocked over blank walls. He won permission...