Word: localize
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Redistributing the Power. In expanding state income, sales and excise taxes to fill such needs, state governments have moved far beyond their traditional field of property taxes. In some states the trend has reached down to the local governments, with the result that the residents of some cities, e.g., St. Louis and Louisville, are now paying three in come taxes - federal, state and local. The Eisenhower Administration has made fit ful starts, but has had no success, in an effort to draw clear lines between the tax fields that should be harvested by federal, state and local governments...
While increasing state and local taxes are hard on the taxpayer, the 1955 shift of emphasis tends to bring government closer to the governed. It is a fact that revenue and expenditure figures often measure the power of government. Throughout the growth of the New Deal, when new federal projects and jobs were pouring out of Washington, the power of the state and local governments dwindled while that of the federal bureaucracy grew. In 1955, along with their taxes and their expenditures, the relative power and importance of state and local govern ments are rising...
...Congolese a small voice in the colony's affairs. Some time next year, if present plans are carried out, the literate Africans in the principal Congo cities (15% of the total native population) will vote alongside the whites for panels of urban councilmen, who will advise the local prefects...
...Ledger and Ledger-Enquirer, for its attack on corruption in Alabama's Phenix City (TIME, June 28): for international reporting, the New York Times's longtime (five years) Moscow Correspondent Harrison Salisbury, for his series written after returning home, "Russia Re-Viewed" (TIME, Oct. 4); for local reporting where deadline pressure was not a factor, Roland Kenneth Towery of the Cuero (Texas) Record, for his series on Texas land scandals (TIME, March 7); for local reporting under deadline pressure, Mrs. Caro Brown of the Alice (Texas) Daily Echo, for a series on one-man political rule...
...Russian press so bad? Answered Kommunist: "Most of the local papers use propaganda articles sent out by the press bureau in Moscow, and very few employ their own authors." Even when they do, the writers so closely ape Moscow that they write "like twins whom it is difficult to tell apart." The magazines are as bad as the newspapers. Most of them are "dull and featureless." Even the overriding concern of the Russian press with serving the party line fails, says Kommunist. "Propaganda articles are as a rule devoted to the past," and filled with official statistics and statements strung...