Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...small scale became more concrete each day. The French Government announced that not only was it shipping material to the Finns but that Italy and Spain were also sending arms, airplanes and volunteers via France - in Spain's case, shipping Russian material that had been captured in the Civil War. (This was promptly denied in Madrid.) Argentina authorized the shipment of 50,000 tons of wheat to Finland, that country to pay when she pleased. Both Brazil and Colombia announced donations of coffee. The Canadian Red Cross set aside $50,000 for relief work...
Since the days of Reconstruction and the scandals of the Grant Administration, civil service reform has been a reliable plank in anyone's party platform. The "best people" have embraced it almost as a religion, claiming that it is the solution to every evil in government, while radicals have sneered that it is a false issue, a handful of dust thrown in the eyes of America. Still, every practical politician has had to pay it at least lip service, until now it has become a political cliche. Thus relegated to an obscure corner of the political circus, civil service reform...
...agitation for civil service reform is the idea that the service should try to attract young men from colleges. It was probably Henry Adams who began the lament that "gentlemen just aren't going into politics these days." That was in the Gilded Age, when capitalism gorged itself on the resources of the nation and made government its subservient tool. The real history of that Age lies in the annals of business, not the archives of government. So it was that men whom the business interests considered "safe" gained easy election to Congress, and the Senate was dubbed the "rich...
...many years there lingered on the hoary old gentlemen of the Union League Club, who saw in this reform the be-all and end-all of good government. Civil service passed through a period of fetishism, surely, but today it is firmly founded on common sense. It is now making the advances to the colleges, carefully tending its preserves. Mr. Stocking doesn't have any Senatorial togas in his suitcase for distribution to likely men, but he represents the leadership of an enlightened and smooth-working bureaucracy. His work keeps alive the spirit of reform that burst forth so enthusiastically...
Mitchell announced in his letter that the Civil Service is currently placing emphasis on employment of persons in the junior professional grades. Competitive examinations in several specialized fields will be announced very shortly, he said...