Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Remission or reduction of local property taxes should be easy to arrange between builders and municipalities, since title in the property eventually reverts to the town or city...
...inducement for private capital to enter this wide new rental market is needed-in huge chunks supplied promptly by big corporations from dormant surpluses instead of in pooled driblets as suggested by President Roosevelt-it could be provided in a variety of ways: by offering tax-free securities of local housing authorities (as at Princeton), now available in 37 States; by insuring mortgages on the properties through FHA with a limited return on the equity; by offering some degree of Federal tax exemption to private capital entering the field...
...amendment to the State Constitution lowering the real-estate tax ceiling to ten mills. Since then the National Association of Manufacturers and other industrial interests have defeated attempts to get other revenues through higher income taxes. Meanwhile the State school aid fund has fallen $17,000,000 behind, left localities in the lurch. Only solution is special local tax levies by cities. One after another, all large Ohio cities except Dayton voted such levies, in some cases, notably in Cincinnati and Springfield, after schools closed...
...Virovai, whose playing is remarkable not only for speed, accuracy and beautiful tone, but for masterly restraint and timing, was born in 1921 in the little Yugoslav mountain resort of Daruvar. When he was six his family moved to Belgrade so that he could study the violin with a local teacher. Four years later he moved on to Budapest...
...caliber of Dean Matthews has been only too obvious. In the past few years Dean Sperry has followed two contradictory lines of approach; he has gone far and wide in an endeavor to find really good men, and he has at the same time insisted on giving local pastors a chance to cultivate the Harvard field. While some of these are excellent men, others are invited merely because they have a "stake in the Harvard community," or because such invitations have been extended in the past--and the popularity and high standards of chapel suffer as a result...