[Plunkitt of Tammany Hall by George Washington Plunkitt]@TWC D-Link bookPlunkitt of Tammany Hall CHAPTER 13 3/7
When the reformers are out they raise the yell that Tammany men should be sent to jail.
When they get in, they're so busy keepin' out of jail themselves that they don't have no time to attack Tammany. All I want is that municipal ownership be postponed till I get my bill repealin' the civil service law before the next legislature.
It would be all a mess if every man who wanted a job would have to run up against a civil service examination.
For instance, if a man wanted a job as motorman on a surface car, it's ten to one that they would ask him: "Who wrote the Latin grammar, and, if so, why did he write it? How many years were you at college? Is there any part of the Greek language you don't know? State all you don't know, and why you don't know it.
Give a list of all the sciences with full particulars about each one and how it came to be discovered.
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