Improvement of the Foreign Service: Hearing... on H.R. 200441912 - 160 pages |
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abroad administration affiliations of candidates American manufacturers appointed to grades appointments and promotions board of examiners BURNHAM CARR Chamber of Commerce citizens Civil Service commercial organizations Committee on Foreign Congress constitutional consular agent Consular and Diplomatic consular officers Consular Service consular system consuls to grades Department diplo Diplomatic and Consular diplomatic secretaries Diplomatic Service dollar diplomacy duties Editorial efficiency records Elihu Root embassy enactment examining boards Executive order existing Executive regulations favor February 27 Foreign Affairs foreign service GARNER House of Representatives improvement indorsement interests introduced KENDALL LINTHICUM Lowden bill lower grades measure ment merit system National Business League Nelson-Foss bill passed permanent persons places political affiliations President Taft principles proportional representation provides question recommendations reform Representative Sulzer RING salaries secretaryships Senate spoils system Sulzer bill take the examination tion United vice consuls Washington WILCOX WILLIAM SULZER WILSON York
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Page 87 - The Constitution unavoidably deals in general language. It did not suit the purposes of the people, in framing this great charter of our liberties, to provide for minute specifications of its powers, or to declare the means by which those powers should be carried into execution. It was foreseen that this would be a perilous and difficult, if not an impracticable task. The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure through a long lapse of ages,...
Page 153 - The examinations will consist of an oral and a written one, the two counting equally. The object of the oral examination will be to determine the candidate's business ability, alertness, general contemporary information, and natural fitness for the service, including moral, mental, and physical qualifications, character, address, and general education and good command of English.
Page 51 - Examiners to formulate rules for and hold examinations of applicants for admission to the consular service. 6. The scope and method of the examinations shall be determined by the Board of Examiners, but among the subjects shall be included at least one modern language other than English; the natural, industrial and commercial resources and the commerce of the United States, especially with reference to the possibilties of increasing and extending the trade of the United States with foreign countries;...
Page 51 - ... 8. No one shall be examined who is under twenty-one or over fifty years of age, or who is not a citizen of the United States...
Page 52 - No person shall be certified as eligible who is under twenty-one or over fifty years of age, or who is not a citizen of the United States, or who is not of good character and habits and physically...
Page 97 - Therefore, be it Resolved that the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York...
Page 51 - Examiners, who shall include in the list of names certified by it only such persons as have passed the examination provided for in this order, and who also have passed an examination in the fundamental principles of the common law, the rules of evidence and the trial of civil and criminal cases.
Page 56 - Looking at it as a matter of common sense, we are quite sure that the framers of our organic law never intended to oppose a constitutional barrier to the right of the people through their legislature to enact laws, which should have for their sole object the possession of...
Page 51 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consular system of the United States be reorganized in the manner hereinafter provided in this Act.
Page 142 - President, along with his recommendations for promotion or for transfer between the department and the foreign service, the names of those secretaries in the Diplomatic Service and the names of those consular officers or departmental officers or employees who by reason of efficient service, an accurate record of which shall be kept in the Department of State, have demonstrated special efficiency, and also the names of persons found upon examination to have fitness for appointment to the lower grades...