04/26/1942
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"We must do more to obtain the most effect from new plants, new houses, and, most important, from new workers."
"I am confident that the report which I am here with transmitting will help in devising effective means for enlarging the scope and extending the area of this type of civil service."
"I have deemed it important to try to work out ways and means whereby the country would have the advantages that come from a professional and permanent public service."
"We ought now to appraise the qualities necessary for those who discharge those highest functions."