REFORM OF U.S. CIVIL SERVICE
(Received 25, 10.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. President Roosevelt has sent to Congress the recommendations of a committee on Civil Service reform with the object of eliminating the traditional “spoils ,, system. If adopted, the recommendations will include a classified Civil Service for all jobs except policymaking and those requiring Senate confirmation. , Mr Roosevelt said: “We have been rather laggard in extending the Civil Service to higher positions requiring Initiative, imagination, and flexibility. We ought to achieve for them an independence and security which would assure the conditions for the best governmental service.’*
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 49, 26 February 1941, Page 8
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