Excerpt from Report of the Director of Personnel and Business Administration, 1934 The Department personnel experienced a turnover of 10. 63 percent during the fiscal year 1934 as compared with 3. 88 percent during the fiscal year 1933, 5. 98 percent during 1932, 7. 95 percent during 1931, and. 9. 79 percent during 1930. The number of appointments during the fiscal year 1934 was 700 percent more than the number appointed in 1933, while the number of separations was 310 percent more than in 1933. There were 914 changes of assignments involving promotions of employees to fill vacancies in higher grades in 19314 in comparison with 139 in 1933. The SO - called administrative promotions, promotions within the grade, were prohibited by the Economy Act of June 130, 1932. Authorities were obtained from the President to fill positions in the Department of Agriculture during the fiscal year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.