Calvin Coolidge: “Whatever its defects, the merit system is certainly to be preferred to the spoils system.”

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

The Consular Regulations are hereby amended as follows

It has been a pleasure to have you come in twice a week and give me an opportunity to answer such queries as you wished to propound.

The Executive order of October 28, 1925, withdrawing Lot 6 Sec. 6, Lots 1 and 2 Sec. 7, T. 7 N., R. 1 E., H.M., California, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 847), as amended, is hereby modified…