8. What happens to my job while I am on military leave? When you return from military service, you must be reemployed in the job that you would have had if you had not been absent for military service (known as the escalator principle) and with the same seniority, status and pay, as well as other rights and benefits determined by seniority.
Al Smith. Alfred Emanuel Al Smith (December 30, 1873 â October 4, 1944) was an American politician who was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928.
August 4, 2016 Russell Shaw General 0 Print. 1  Eighty-eight years ago a Happy Warrior from the streets of New York ran for president of the United States. His name was Al Smith, and he deserves to be remembered now as another bitter presidential campaign enters its decisive phase. In writing my new book Catholics in America (Ignatius Press), profiling 15 prominent Catholics who mirror the pros and cons of the Americanization process at work in American Catholicism, I had no hesitation including Smith.