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Calvin Coolidge: “They shall serve only so long as absolutely required and in no case beyond the usual field season.”

On the recordFebruary 22, 1929
They shall serve only so long as absolutely required and in no case beyond the usual field season.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Executive Order 5055—Amendment to Subdivision IX, Schedule A of the Civil Service Rules

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