"Oral examination" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... merits of each employee, and it is important, in making selections, that you secure this information through committees of trusted officers, and in proper cases to test the intelligence, ability, and qualifications of an officer or applicant for office by written questions or an oral examination. In many cases the partiality and influence of relations secure several persons of the same family in office, thus causing complaints and favoritism. As a rule, it is best in all cases to have but one of the same family under your jurisdiction, and no ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman |
