Calvin Coolidge: “We expect to provide ourselves with reasonable protection, but we do not desire to enter into competition with any other…”

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

Mrs. Mary Scott Mills, widow of Mr. John S. Mills who served the Government very efficiently for fifty-one years and from 1897 in the Treasury Department, may be appointed to an appropriate classified position without reference to the…

Examination papers shall be rated on a scale of 100, and the subjects therein shall be given such relative weights as the commission may prescribe.

The names of disabled veterans, their wives, and the widows of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines shall be placed above all others.