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...National Civil Service Reform League called on President Harding for further explanation of the dismissal of 27 employees from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing which caused much discussion a year ago. The employees were reinstated last month...
...League Secretariat, which is the Civil Service of the League, is one of the hardest-working business bodies in the world. Unlike the Council and the Assembly it is continuous, and transacts practical business every day of the year. It consists of 350 highly paid experts and their secretaries and clerks, chosen by examination, from every important nation in the world, except Germany and Russia...
...pepper box" from which the modern revolver originated. The "pepper box" is a small weapon about six inches in length with a revolving cylinder which is divided into six parts, each of which forms a barrel. Then there are types of the revolver which were used during the Civil War and resemble the modern revolver. Finally there is a case containing modern small arms used in present-day warfare. They are single and double action revolvers and Colt and Mauser automatic pistols...
...William J. Harris, wife of the Georgia Senator, recently collected $200 from the government. It was back pay due to her father, General " Joe " Wheeler, for his services as an Army officer before he joined the Confederacy in the Civil...
...Adolfo de la Huerta, present Finance Minister. General Huerta was elected Provisional President after the civil war of 1920, but was defeated in the Presidential elections which returned General Alvaro Obregon. De la Huerta says, however, that he will not accept nomination and feels himself strongly bound to Calles...