Calvin Coolidge: “I think that is attributable partly to the reduction of taxation.”

No employee entitled to military preference in appointment shall be discharged or dropped or reduced in rank or salary if his record is good.

Mr. Raymond F. Mulherin, for many years a post office employee and post office inspector, may be reinstated to an appropriate position in the classified service without regard to the time limit upon his eligibility for reinstatement.

Nothing special took place at the Cabinet this morning.

So far as the Commission may deem practicable, such appointments shall be made from the registers of eligibles.