Word: readoption
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Reform Mayor "Chep" Morrison, has already felt his displeasure. By giving the state a bigger share of the city's income (sales tax, cigarette tax, revenue from horse racing), Earl's legislature has cut $3,000,000 of New Orleans revenue. It has ordered the city to readopt the aldermanic form of government (which New Orleans abandoned by referendum in 1912), thus robbing the mayor of almost all power...
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