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...soothe the protests of C.I.O. government workers' unions, Director Stassen took three of the tests himself, in company with C. D. Jackson, White House adviser and onetime publisher...
Ever since Confucius gave the idea to the Chinese, governments in various ways have been making their civil servants take examinations to get their jobs.* Last week Director Harold Stassen of the Foreign Operations Administration introduced a variation of this principle. He gave 1,700 employees a sweeping set of intelligence tests, to help determine which 400 should be fired...
...Stassen planned the tests as an "objective indication of ability" after Congress, in cutting FOA's appropriation, had given him blanket authority to disregard civil service regulations, seniority, or even veterans' preference in pruning his staff. Clerical staff members ($3,000 a year and below) took a basic test in vocabulary and reading comprehension; higher-placed FOAers faced a more difficult exam (45 questions, 75 minutes). Bureaucrats on a policy level had a public affairs test to contend with (70 questions, 2 hours), or, if they wished, a two-hour examination in "administrative judgment...
...Mutual Security Administrator Stassen...
When Harold Stassen resigned as president of the University of Pennsylvania to become Mutual Security Director in the Eisenhower Cabinet, his former trustees apparently made up their minds about one thing: they wanted a president who would not be perpetually running for the presidency of the U.S. Last week the university finally announced its choice: 49-year-old Physicist Gaylord P. Harnwell, who has been on the Penn faculty since...