Four years of civil service reform were undone within months by Hylan

Evidence

Dismissed, Moses watched as the handful of civil service innovations that represented the pathetically small accomplishment of his four years of effort were destroyed one by one. The meager measure of standardization that had been enacted was abolished by amendments to the 1918 budget. The few positions that had been removed from the exempt list were placed back on it. Hylan’s department heads ended the use of the efficiency records. The yellow forms of which Moses had been so proud were henceforth to be used, if they were used at all, only as scrap paper. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 371

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• XREF: connects to: Tammany political bosses gutted New York civil service reform under Hylan — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 372

Broader Connections

• Tammany political bosses gutted New York civil service reform under Hylan #corroborates (0.95) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 372