Executive Order 5657—Amending Schedule A of the Civil-Service Rules
06/23/1931
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My dear Mrs. Bird: I am deeply grieved to learn of the death of your brother, the universally beloved Father Francis P. ...
We cannot restore employment in the United States by these methods.
There is another phase of the bill as passed which is disheartening.
Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on th...