Proceedings of the ... Conference for Good City Government and the ... Annual Meeting of the National Municipal League, Volume 4The League, 1896 |
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Page 285 - The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings.") Cf . JK Galbraith, The A fluent Society (New York : Houghton Mifflin Co..
Page 285 - They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 176 - Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed.
Page 34 - The next business in order will be the report of the Committee to suggest nominations for Officers and Executive Committee for the ensuing year.
Page 228 - SEC. 705. (a) There is hereby created a Commission to be known as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which shall be composed of five members, not more than three of whom shall be members of the same political party, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Page 187 - Department, in a grade requiring no higher examination than the one in which he was formerly employed, any person who, within one year next preceding the date of the requisition, has, through no delinquency or misconduct, been separated from the classified service of that Department: Provided.
Page 303 - Here's to the United States!" said the first speaker,— "bounded on the north by British America, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean...
Page 304 - I find earth not gray but rosy, Heaven not grim but fair of hue. Do I stoop ? I pluck a posy. Do I stand and stare ? All's blue.
Page 149 - Until this device of classified legislation is entirely rooted out, the cities of Pennsylvania will never be free from this uncertainty as to the validity and operation of the laws affecting them, which is of itself a great evil, and is constantly growing more burdensome each year. Of the classified legislation regulating cities of the second class probably the most important is an act passed June 14, 1887, and which was intended to and did work a very radical change in the government of the city...
Page 178 - Whenever a vacancy is to be filled in the official service, unless it is to be filled by promotion, the appointing officer shall make a requisition upon a form prescribed by the Commission for the certification to him of the name of an eligible. The Commission shall certify to him the name of the person who stands highest on the appropriate register of eligibles, and such person shall be appointed.