Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the city cannot get enough money to run itself from valuations it must turn to the tax rate for a source of income. The assessment valuation plus the tax rate gives an index figure which a city must maintain to operate properly. Thus, throughout Curley's administrations, the tax rate has been going up and, if the valuation were to drop to the real value of the land now, the tax rate would be even higher...
...campaign, Hynes has made no spectacular commitments. He knows that he cannot reduce the excessive tax rate at present because it is but an indication of a municipal disease that has roots far deeper than the Curley inefficiencies. But he has estimated, nor promised, that he can save the city $1,500,000 yearly; this figure implies a city payroll deduction and the end of the abatements racket...
...reconstruction. In two instances, the executives that came after him left City Hall in near disgrace as Curley re-merged. With his training in municipal accounting while City Clerk and with his experience as acting mayor, Hynes has the equipment to reform the city's administration so that bossism cannot return...
...University police security measures cannot be divulged, because that would spoil their objective, but if invaders from other universities want to get caught in our trap, let them try anything." Chief Alvin R. Randall asserted yesterday...
...dollar gobs--to people selected at random from the city directory. He does this to avoid leaving it to his relatives, who are gathered in the hallway like homing turkey buzzards. The point of it all is that Good People can be happy with money, but that Bad People cannot, and so on, through half a dozen incidents...