PRESIDENT TO GET RELIEF FROM 'IMPORTUNITIES OF OFFICE-SEEKERS'
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On September 5, 1923, President Calvin Coolidge was given a recommendation by a committee of the National Civil Service Reform League including "measures designed to relieve the Chief Executive from importunities* of office-seekers."
The committee, headed by William Dudley Foulke, was accompanied to the White House by Charles Deming of the Civil Service Commission**.
The Evening Star reports "changes suggested affect the distribution of appointments of approximately 120,000 federal employees."
*importunities, persistence, especially to the point of annoyance
**Civil Service Commission is a federal government agency established by the constitution or legislature to regulate the employment and working conditions of civil servants as well as to oversee hiring & promotions.
SOURCE
"Coolidge Urged To Pick 12,000 By Merit Test," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., September 5, 1923, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
