Word: scales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Demolition of the Cambridge Council's stalling game in the battle over the city manager form of government strikes a progressive note in the scale of local politics, the like of which has seldom been heard since the day of Lincoln Steffens and the muckrakers. On Friday the petition of the Plan E Committee, which under the chairmanship of Dean Landis has obtained over 11,000 signatures, was blocked by the Council on trivial technical ground. Mr. McNamara, president of the body, declared that Cambridge "was not going to be turned into a laboratory of guinea pigs...
Robert H. Everitt, international A. F. of L. organizer for the Building Service trades admitted that many janitors, still dissatisfied with the existing wage scale had implored his union to enter the field once again...
Wood-block printing was probably generally known in China about 800 A. D., he concludes. Printing of books on a large scale and under governmental patronage was done in the tenth century. Movable types, however, were not invented until the middle of the eleventh century...
...modern sense of community functions on a larger scale and demands larger areas of local administration well suited to the character of the modern urban community. Moreover, we must look forward to the extension of the essential principles of the city manager plan to approved areas of regional administration. Despite the apprehension in some quarters lost our people find themselves confronted with a group of TVA's threatening to get out of hand, the void in our present system of public administration must be filled by the development of regional administrative mechanisms...
This year Samborski intends to continue the activities on a larger scale. In addition to the two fall sports there will be basketball and squash leagues during the winter and tennis and soft ball again next spring...