ABSTRACT
The 1930s represent two very different traditions in public personnel management yet the two traditions also worked together. Mosher refers to the years before 1937 as part of the era of government by the efficient and the post 1937 years as government by administrators.(51) The beginning of the 1930s, with Hoover as president, continued the pattern of the Coolidge years when business efficiency was of paramount importance to the administration. The depression, of course, added some new concerns but had little effect on personnel practices as such. The election of President Franklin Roosevelt, however, was to have major implications.
