Word: pay
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...department of the city's business, but the council is jointly responsible to the people. There is no "single man" power which has proved so unsuccessful in Boston, New York, and other large American cities. The council elects the important city officers and fixes their salaries; the pay of the mayor and councillors themselves is fixed by law and varies with the population of the city concerned. A civil service commission of three men, elected by the people, and distinct from the other departments of the administration, provides for the filling of all but the most important positions. Its power...
...system, so that there is an utter absence of it in the administration of the city departments. There is no discipline, because each member of a force owes his appointment to someone other than the leader. If a half-day's work is done for a whole day's pay, there is no one to complain. The supplies of the city are purchased by persons who have no knowledge of the kind involved in making the contract, so that the city thus loses immense sums. The worst influence morally is the complicity of the police with the worst vices...
...result has come a great increase in expenditure. A majority of the voters in the cities today are not tax payers, indeed the same is true of the majority of office holders. More than two-thirds of the candidates at the last Cambridge election paid no taxes. Those who pay no taxes elect men like them selves, who will favor rockiness expenditure. The debt of cities in the United States is enormous. That of Boston increased in the last 12 years at four times the increase at the property valuation...
...Sheldon '08, President of the Dramatic Cub, has written a play which has been accepted by Mrs. Fiske as one of her productions for next year. The pay, which is a drama of modern American life, will be produced by Mrs. Fiske and the Manhattan Company at the Belasco Theatre about the middle of September. The title and subject are withheld until the time of production...
...entered in the tournament and who have not paid their entrance fee, will be considered out and their matches forfeited if they do not pay at once. Trials for the University tennis team have been postponed until Monday...