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Page 18 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Page 6 - FIRST. To aid the President, as he may request, in preparing suitable rules for carrying this act into effect, and when said rules .shall have been promulgated it shall be the duty of all officers of the United States...
Page 9 - ... in making appointments to clerical and other positions in the executive branch of the Government in the District of Columbia or elsewhere preference shall be given to honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines, and widows of such, and to the wives of injured soldiers, sailors, and marines, who themselves are not qualified, but whose wives are qualified, to hold such positions...
Page 18 - Hemingway in his beliefs that "he travels the fastest that travels alone" and that "the female of the species is more deadly than the male"; and Hemingway seems to reflect Kipling in the submissive infra-AngloSaxon women that make his heroes such perfect mistresses.
Page 9 - Executive order of March 3, 1923, will be construed to require that, in selecting employees to be demoted or separated on account of any reduction of working forces, honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines, and the widows of such, and the wives of injured soldiers, sailors, and marines...
Page 4 - ... chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and gained distinction by his defense of Martin Van Buren against the attacks of Henry Clay. In the course of a speech on the question of appointment to office, he upheld the right of the President to bestow the offices upon his political supporters, saying, "We can see nothing wrong in the maxim that to the victors belong the spoils," thus associating his name in history with the spoils system.
Page 9 - ... Guard, an ordinary or inaptitude discharge from the Navy, an inaptitude or unfitness discharge from the Marine Corps, or an ordinary or inaptitude discharge from the Coast Guard where such service was honorable is necessary to secure preference. 7. Persons granted preference. — The statutory provision is not limited to veterans of the World War but applies to all honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines, including commissioned officers. Preference may be granted to the following...
Page 10 - ... Clerk 88 96 16 Food and Drug Inspector 79 86 7 Assistant Auditor 90 94 8 The effect of veteran preference on eligible lists for positions to which women are not adapted to fill is best illustrated by the examination for scientific assistant, public health service. Very few men apply for this position. In the last examination there were two veterans who passed with averages of less than 70%. If the highest veteran were to be appointed he would be skipped over sixty-five women whose averages are...
Page 6 - ... Senate shall appoint, all public officers of the United States whose appointments are not therein otherwise provided for and which shall be established by law; but Congress may, by law, vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they may think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 13 - ... Chief Commissioner may not serve as chairman until the expiration of a 2-year period after he last served as Chief Commissioner. We favor the extension of the life of the Commission because it is apparent that the pending claims cannot be disposed of by 1967. We express no recommendation regarding the provision increasing the membership of the Commission from three to five, or regarding the provision making the present Chief Commissioner ineligible for appointment as the first Chairman of the...