Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It is important that we set up without delay some regional machinery to acquaint us with our problem.

it is ordered that Robert F. Kelley, who resigned his position in the Foreign Service of the United States on July 1, 1928, to accept appoin...

Aside from the undoubted fact that the merit system affords the best method for administration of government business, the particular featur...

Please let me urge upon the Congress the desirability of placing all but policy-forming positions under the merit system.