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...memorandum from the Chief-of-staff, General Craig, to the Secretary of War, is clear and succinct in its condemnation of Hagood for having overstepped his duties as an army officer and public servant. Craig commends his subordinate's professional efficiency and brilliant intellect, but calls his remarks before the House Appropriations subcommittee flippant and in direct breach of accepted army policy: which is that no political utterances should be made by an army officer. Hagood's statements, designedly or otherwise, brought criticism and ridicule upon the army and his superiors, including the Commander-in-Chief, and are so much...
...associations of government officials and the like) and private industry. Indeed, the future might very well reveal to us that the two-sided experience of a young man who has been trained in public service as well as in private activities may produce the best and most effective public servant, in the larger sense, for the American system of government...
Throughout this article, I have constantly referred to "trained college graduates." Those of us who are devoting all of our time and attention to the problem of training public servants of the highest standards for America's government and semi-public problems, are convinced more and more as time rolls on of the utter lack of wisdom in any effort to "train" for public service, as such, in undergraduate years at college. There are many reasons for this. In the first place, that man who devotes his attention to such "tool" subjects as personnel management, fire and police administration...
...Dear, dear,' she said. 'There are only two plays that I wanted to see and I am forbidden to see either of them.' " Concluded Playwright Housman proudly: "They were my play and Shaw's Apple Cart." To Father Charles Edward Coughlin, who called him "a servant of the money changers," New York's Representative John Joseph O'Connor, sent the following telegram: "If you will please come to Washington, I shall guarantee to kick you all the way from the Capitol to the White House, with clerical garb and all the silver in your...
...there was great strife abroad in all the land of the free. For lo! from out the far-off land of the royal oak hast come the voice of the priest, crying, "Wherefore hast thou deceived thy people? Wherefore hast thou removed the names from the petition, O thou servant of the money changers?" And him that he revileth; him who representeth in honor in the city of the father of all the land hath been most wroth. His countenance hath fallen, and his anger hath kindled within him, and his dignity hath left him. Wherefore he hath vowed...