I would not like to see one of these promotions at this time without seeing both.
If you have any promotions to recommend, send the names forward and I will approve them.
I beg leave to recommend the following promotions be made for gallant and distinguished services in the last eight days' battles, to wit: Brigadier-General H.
Members of Congress, in making promotions and appointments, were more apt to consider local claims than military merit, and they also allowed their own personal prejudices to affect their action in this respect far too much.
Fewer promotions in the foreign line would have been productive of more harmony, and made our warfare more agreeable to all parties.
Always with him is the head of the Civil Cabinet, who advises with the Emperor on all appointments and promotions on the civil side of the Government, helping even to make and unmake Ambassadors and Chancellors.
The chiefs of the army are always in close touch with the Kaiser, but he is consulted on army commands and promotions much less than on civil and even naval promotions.
In consequence of the way in which promotionswere made, the greatest ignorance prevailed amongst all grades of officers.
Promotions were made; five officers, all my juniors, were placed over my head.
That promotions in the army and in the hierarchies of the civil service and the learned professions are often made, not according to worth, but according to birth, friendship and female influence, is a matter of public notoriety.
To secure this reformation rules regulating methods of appointment and promotions were established and have been tried.
I also recommend that all promotions in the Navy above the rank of captain be by selection instead of by seniority.
Promotions were usually welcomed by the soldiers with great enthusiasm, for the Emperor required that they should take place with much pomp and ceremony.
All the promotions by him were of Arminian clergymen.
Henry, before dismissing his Parliament, conferred favours andpromotions on many of his friends.
The price of Ely Central and other Scheftels promotions dropped.
Distribution of the stocks of our early promotions had originally taken place in such a broad way that it now appeared as if selling must necessarily become scattered.
Promotions had been made a little too rapidly for public digestion.
Very frequently they gave to the public its first definite and intelligent idea of real value behind promotions and in properties.
It was the first time in the history of Western mining promotions that a thing like this had ever been done, and we pointed out to Mr. Weir that it would gain reputation both for himself and the trust company.
In the marketing of its promotions the Scheftels company found that not more than 20 per cent.
The majority of Goldfield mine-owners had not "fallen" for Bullfrog, but the success of the Bullfrog stock company promotions in the East inspirited them.
Those officers who lose the promotions intended for them by the crown must become of a faction opposite to that of the Assembly which has rejected their claims, and must nourish discontents in the heart of the army against the ruling powers.
Numerous promotions were made in the army, and there was a general distribution of crosses.
He continued to make numerous promotions in his army, which were published in the “Moniteur” indiscriminately, and under the same date with the appointment of certain bishops.
While at Munich, he made many promotions in the army.
I approved of General Smith's promotion highly, as I did all the promotions that were made.
Has received so many extra promotions only because his father insisted that the teachers allow him to try the next grade.
Indeed, it would be desirable to make all promotions on the basis chiefly of intellectual ability.
A statement of the result of every noncompetitive test and all appointments, transfers, or promotions based thereon shall be immediately forwarded to the Commission.
Regulations to govern promotions shall be formulated by the Commission after consultation with the heads of the several Departments, bureaus, and offices.
The details regulating promotions shall be formulated by the Commission after consultation with the heads of the several Departments, bureaus, or offices.
In connection with this plan of examinationpromotions and transfers of deserving incumbents have been quite extensively made, with excellent results.
The members of said boards shall perform such duties as the Commission may direct in connection with examinations, appointments, and promotions in any part of the service which has been or may hereafter be classified.
Innumerable examples of the same principle in promotions could be gleaned from the records of some of the oldest and most progressive houses in the country.
Records of each man's performance are kept, and promotions and discharge are more nearly in accord with facts than would be possible in a large house without some such agency.
Next to continuous employment, among methods of increasing the value of wages, is the policy of making promotions from the ranks.
All these promotions happened to fall upon West-Pointers, and doubtless Logan and Blair had some reason to believe that we intended to monopolize the higher honors of the war for the regular officers.
If you have any promotions to recommend, send the names forward, and I will approve them.
These were promptly appointed brigadier-generals, were already in command of brigades or divisions; and I doubt if eight promotions were ever made fairer, or were more honestly earned, during the whole war.
But up to that time, when the newspapers announced daily promotions elsewhere, no prominent officers serving with me had been advanced a peg, and I felt hurt.
The answer must be that such assignment and promotions are there unknown.
Promotions from the Junior Classes fill up the empty room in the Senior Department.
Promotions are as regular and as judicious as in the public schools.
Examinations in each department are held during the month of March, by the Executive Committee, and the promotions are all made on one Sunday in April.
Promotions to be made annually, and all at the same time, on the last Sunday of March.
While special supplemental lessons may be provided for each department, the promotions to be made upon general fitness, age, and intelligence, and not upon the result of an examination.
Promotions are made only once a year; exceptional individual promotions may occur in some instances.
With a few annual promotions the actual attains the ideal and the system becomes perfect in its grade.
In making promotions from one grade to another it is not best to have ironclad rules.
It has been demonstrated to our board in our promotions that this Primary Course is well conceived and serves admirably well the purpose intended, which is to lay a foundation upon which a structure might be reared without fear of tottering.
Promotions from the Senior Department then fill up again the Normal Class.
All the promotions should be made at once throughout the school.
A third essential of the graded Sunday school is that of regular promotions from grade to grade, with change of teachers.
If a teacher is a misfit in a class the time for promotions is the time to put that teacher where he can work without friction, without giving any publicity to the change.
I respectfully recommend the following promotions and appointments in the engineer company: Corporal Benjamin W.
On the other hand, a system which encouraged the exercise of social or political favoritism in promotions would be even worse.
Promotions may be made without examination in offices where examinations for promotion are not now held until rules on this subject shall be promulgated.
Promotions may be made without examinations in offices where examinations for promotion are not now held until rules on the subject shall be promulgated.
An intelligent system was demanded, reaching from top to bottom of the army, separating its discipline, its assignments to duty, its promotions and its removals from political influences, and making merit alone the basis of advancement.
On December 22d Mr. Stanton asked Thomas to make a list of promotions he desired to recommend, but informed him that there was then no vacancy in the grade of Major-General, and only two in that of Brigadier.
Thomas made out his list on the 25th, and it was for promotions in the volunteer service only.
Some promotions to the rank of brigadier were made in the Potomac Army at this time, and Grant was notified that there were three or four other vacancies in that grade.
In regard to general officers the question of assignments and promotions was always an embarrassing one for commanders of armies in the field.
By letters received from this ship we learned, that some promotions had taken place in the New South Wales corps.
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