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Baury De Bellerive Bradford requests permission to take the examination for Assistant Paymaster in the Navy and has received several endorsements. President Roosevelt would like to know if Secretary of the Navy Moody finds this course of action proper.
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1902-05-27
President Roosevelt would like to know why Mr. Jackman was refused reexamination and Mr. Cardwell was reexamined.
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1902-01-29
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1897-09-01
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt has received the letter sent by Margaret M. McGarr with news of her nephew passing the examination to be considered for a position on the police force, but as he has no professional connection to the Police Department at present, he cannot involve himself in finding a position for Miles. He will write to someone on the Board on behalf of Miles.
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1897-06-07
Edgar Huidekoper Wells thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the note and for returning Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt’s examination books. He is disappointed that he could not make it out to Oyster Bay.
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1911-11-07
Carl T. Bauch explains that his son, Herbert W. Bauch, failed a makeup examination at the United States Naval Academy due to extenuating circumstances. He hopes Theodore Roosevelt will advocate for Herbert W. Bauch’s reinstatement in his class.
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1911-10-07
Mary Josephene Burton Frazer expresses to Theodore Roosevelt that she invites him and Edith Roosevelt to contribute a small item or letter for a baby show in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
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1911-09-11
Ella Sears Bulloch petitions her nephew, President Roosevelt, on behalf of her sister’s godson, Gifford Cutler, who failed his exam for the United States Navy. She lists his relatives that Roosevelt would know. She explains that he passed in all subjects except spelling and is doing well in a quality technical school in Washington.
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1907-03-09
The document includes ten questions that vary from defining interstate commerce, the constitutionality of various Congressional decisions, and the limits of the Constitution.
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1906-06-13
Leonard Wood writes to President Roosevelt from where he is stationed in the Philippines. Wood defends Mr. Steinhardt’s reputation in reference to a previous letter from Roosevelt and describes how he hopes to get more general instruction for his troops.
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1906-02-05
Representative Parsons thanks President Roosevelt for allowing LeGrand Beaumont Curtis to be named an alternate to take the examination for admission to West Point.
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1905-12-28
Civil Service Commissioners Black and Greene inform President Roosevelt that the Commission cannot proceed with establishing a labor register nationwide. The Commission lacks the local personnel to perform the required medical examinations, as well as, the funding to pay for any medical examinations.
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1905-01-10
William S. Cowles writes to William Loeb to arrange for United States Navy commander R. F. Nicholson’s nephew Fenlon Nicholson to take examination for Second Lieutenant, civilian appointment.
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1903-11-20
Robert L. Preston is giving Kermit Roosevelt academic examinations and when they are complete Preston will forward the exams to the Roosevelts so they may be enclosed to Dr. Endicott Peabody at Groton School.
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1902-06-02
James A. Roosevelt is in London and is concerned about exams he will soon be taking at Bonn. He asks if President Roosevelt could arrange a spot for him on a U.S. ship that will be present at the naval review for the coronation (most likely for King Edward VII of the United Kingdom). After the exams, Roosevelt intends to make a trip around the world with stops in India, China, Hawaii, and other sites.
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1902-05-04
Secretary of the Navy Long writes that I. Thomas Hagner, on the request of his sister Isabella Hagner, can be reexamined for the position of assistant paymaster in the Navy on only the subjects he previously failed. Long informs Roosevelt that the decision is in the hands of the examining board.
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1902-04-25
Secretary of the Navy Long responds to a request from Isabella Hagner to allow her brother to be reexamined only in the areas he was found deficient for appointment as an assistant paymaster in the Navy. Long states that such a decision will be at the discretion of the new examining board and he cannot interfere with their decision.
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1902-04-24