National Municipal Review, Volume 5

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National Municipal League, 1916
 

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Página 158 - Direction of the Council on Health and Public Instruction of the American Medical Association.
Página 535 - State bureau of municipal information of the New York State Conference of Mayors and other City Officials.
Página 50 - Make investigations concerning and report upon all matters touching the enforcement and effect of the provisions of this act and the rules and regulations prescribed thereunder...
Página 281 - You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
Página 695 - In relation to this highly complicated social environment, training for citizenship is formal and nominal unless it develops the power of observation, analysis and inference with respect to what makes up a social situation and the agencies through which it is modified.
Página 377 - The preferential system directly diminishes the right of an elector to give an effective vote for the candidate of his choice. If he votes for him once, his power to help him is exhausted. If he votes for other candidates he may harm his choice, but cannot help him.
Página 324 - To so hold would preclude development and fix a city forever in its primitive conditions. There must be progress, and if in its march private interests are in the way they must yield to the good of the community. The logical result of petitioner's contention would seem to be that a city could not be formed or enlarged against the resistance of an occupant of the ground and that if it grows at all it can only grow as the environment of the occupations that are usually banished to the purlieus.
Página 245 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Página 136 - Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Página 595 - The Board of County Commissioners of each county in the State, not oftener than once in every two years, upon the application of one-fourth of the registered voters of any county, shall call and provide for an election in the county in which application is made, to decide whether the sale of intoxicating liquors, wines or beer shall be prohibited therein, the question to be determined by a majority vote of those voting at the election called under this section...

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