At present, sons and nephews and cousins of Members of Council are stuck into the uncovenanted Civil Service ad libitum.
These are the men entering the civil service of the Eastern colonies, Ceylon, Hong Kong, the Federated Malay States, etc.
This distinction marks an important difference between the system of civil service examinations as it exists in the United States, and the form which the system has assumed in England.
Hundreds of Jewish physicians had to work and to encounter the murderous fire of the Japanese because of the fact that an unjust law deprived them of the right of civil service in time of peace.
Civil service is enforced to the letter, and the social pressure from above downward is of a nature caused by financial or educational supremacy only and would remain the same under republican rule.
Perhaps his informant has been on that company's payroll only six months himself, but he waxes eloquent on the benefits of civil service, on the desirability of making their own men, of overcoming previous demoralization.
The conductor might succeed, but the official would fall a sacrifice on the shrine of civil service, a fetich because, in its true meaning, so little understood.
The great trouble seems to be in this matter of civil service that we have tried to accomplish too much in too short a time.
I served six years as Civil Service Commissioner--four years under President Harrison and then two years under President Cleveland.
He was introduced to the audience as a young man whose achievement was such as to promise much for the future, and moreover he was given a place in the post-office--as I have said, this was long before the day of Civil Service Reform.
We never parted company excepting on the question of Civil Service Reform, where he sincerely felt that I showed doctrinaire affinities, that I sided with the pharisees.
Civil Service Reform is designed primarily to give the average American citizen a fair chance in politics, to give to this citizen the same weight in politics that the "ward heeler" has.
But district attorneys change with every election, while the warden--protected by civil service--goes on forever.
When the new elections brought Tammany back to power, "civil service" protected me from the grafters, just as it had protected them from their enemies.
The "spoils system" had given place to the evils of civil service.
During his administration President Hayes devoted his efforts mainly to civil service reform, resumption of specie payments and the pacification of the Southern States, recently in rebellion.
The following year, having returned to England, Head was nominated a civil service commissioner.
Promotion and removal are determined by Civil Service rules.
Department heads may appoint and remove at will a large number of minor officers in their respective departments, though of late years this power has been considerably restricted by Civil Service rules.
In August, President Cleveland gave signal evidence of his devotion to civil service reform by appointing a Republican, because of his special qualifications, to be chief examiner for the Civil Service Commission.
When his duties as Civil Service Commissioner at Washington were pressing upon him he yet found time to write several books on hunting, as well as part of his splendid work “The Winning of the West.
The two fought shoulder to shoulder in behalf of civil service.
For a Western parallel see Fritz Morstein Marx, Civil Service in Germany, in: Civil Service Abroad, p.
Scholar-officials were recruited by civil service examinations, and to this degree the society was a democratic one.
Another feature to be noted about the Chinese government under the Empire was the examination and civil service system.
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