Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quickly sizing up the situation a member of the faculty of the Geology Department who is especially prominent in local affairs soothed both the young ladies and the dog by pouring a glass of water over the head of the latter...
Kansas finances rest on three main props: 1) the Tax Limitation Act, restricting local taxing bodies to a maximum levy for any one purpose and to a maximum total; 2) the Budget Law, requiring local governments to publish their budgets in advance, hold public hearings; 3) the Cash Basis Law which limits every locality to pay-as-you-go spending. The last is a Landon measure. The first two were initiated by Democratic Governor Woodring. Governor Landon has stuck to the law's letter. But the enormous myth which GOPartisans have made of his budget-balancing feat...
...author attempts to trace through her scene in the southeast part of Yorkshire the pattern of "the complex tangle of motives prompting public decisions, the unforeseen consequences of their enactment on private lives." Readers unfamiliar with English local government will do well to turn to Vera Brittain's note (in an appendix) explaining the history and functions of county councils...
...suggestion that such services, although customary holding company functions, resulted in an increase in local telephone rates when charged to the operating companies, A. T. & T. officials re- plied that they were the "backbone" of the Bell System, that A. T. & T. really lost money furnishing them. C, To the suggestion that A. T. & T. made inordinate profits on the rentals and finally on the sale of the telephone equipment, President Walter S. Gifford replied that the reduction of service charges in 1927 saved the operating companies about $17,000,000 per year...
...York's Mayor LaGuardia, in his capacity as President of the United States Conference of Mayors, recently refused to accept an invitation to a congress of the International Union of Local Authorities to be held next month at Berlin. He declined on the ground that "it would be a paradox to hold a conference on municipal government in a nation where local self-government has been obliterated." Mayor LaGuardia's refusal smacks more of a consistently biased opinion than any reasoned judgment...