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...Mediocre or "available" men: J. H. Univ. Studies IV, p. 95; (2) Political bosses; Von Holst; Const. Law, p. 331. - (b) Deals. - (c) Treatment of municipal offices as party spoils; J. H. Univ. Studies V. p. 61. - (d) The State Legislature is apt to interfere in city affairs: Ency. Brit. XVII, 463; Lalor I, 464; Bryce...
Brief for the Negative:R. S. BARLOW and C. R. DETRICK.Best general references: Bryce's Am. Com. I. Chaps. L-LII, LXIII-LXVIII; Von Holst's Cons. Law, Sec. 102; Jamelson's Introduction to Const, Hist.; Labor, I, p. 460; Encyclopedia Brit. IV. 62, XVII. 462; Pol. Sc. Quar. II, 201-312; June '87, Forum II, 265, Nov. '86, 539, Feb. '87, 357. 472. Dec. '90: Ford's Am. Cit. Manual Part I, 66-83; F. J. Parker's Study of Munic. Gov. in Mass.; Publications Am. Econ. Asso. I. No. 2, 3, II. No. 6; Johns Hopkins U. Studies...
...parallel lines, etc. (2) Local use of post office facilities. (3) Freedom from taxation.- Quart. J. Econ., Apr., '88. (c) Service would be more efficient.- (1) Lines would be made adequate for business, and (2) extended to suburbs and outlying districts; (3) Offices would be more centrally located.- Brit. Quart., 59:455, (4) Strikes would be impossible.- Hadley. R. R. Transportation...
...reducing the surplus; (c) in this case a bounty would be better than a duty.- John Sherman in Congressional Record, Jan. 18, 1889, p. 931; Hamilton's Works, Vol. III., p. 246; (d) The beet-sugar industries of other countries have been built up by the bounty system.- Encyclopedia Brit., Vol. XXII., p. 628; (e) state aid has been an important factor in building up other industries both at home and abroad.- Lalor's Cyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 818; (f) a bounty would encourage the domestic production of sugar from beets and sorghum.- John Sherman in Congressional Record...
...ardor," too, "springs a pronunciation unusually rapid," contracting "two short syllables into one," and pronouncing words "terminating with a liquid, particularly with l, m, or n, in such a manner as to leave out the sound of the vowel: thus, Sweden, Britain, garden, vessel, are extensively pronounced Swed'n, Brit'n, gard'n, vess'l. The syllable ing they abbreviate into en. They also omit the aspirate in words beginning with wh; for example, wheat and wharf are made weat and warf." Do any traces of these peculiarities still linger among Bostonians...