Supplementary Report of the Urbanism Committee to the National Resources Committee, 1. sējumsUnited States. National Resources Committee. Research Committee on Urbanism, United States. National Resources Committee. Urbanism Committee U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 "On August 9, 1937, the National Resources Committee submitted to the President its report on 'Our cities--their role in the national economy.' In the course of preparing this report a large volume of basic data and information was collected which could not then be included. The publication of these supplementary volumes has been undertaken to make such data and information available."--Vol. l, p. iii. |
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281. lappuse - Uniform Act to Secure the Attendance of Witnesses from Without the State in Criminal Cases.
181. lappuse - There is no denying that the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States.
120. lappuse - The corporation, including its franchise, its capital, reserves and surplus, and its income shall be exempt from all taxation now or hereafter imposed by the United States, by any Territory, dependency or possession thereof, or by any State, county, municipality or local taxing authority ; except that any real property of the corporation shall be subject to State, Territorial, county, municipal or local taxation to the same extent, according to its value, as other real property is taxed.
45. lappuse - The duties of all public officers are, or, at least, admit of being made, so plain and simple, that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance ; and I cannot but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office, than is generally to be gained by their experience.
124. lappuse - Any information thus secured by any official, body, or commission of any State may be used only for the administration of the tax laws of such State, except that upon written request of the governor of such State any such information may be furnished to any official, body, or commission of any political subdivision of such State, lawfully charged with the administration of the tax laws of such political subdivision, but may be furnished only for the purpose of, and may be used only for, the administration...
50. lappuse - Without the slightest exaggeration we may assert that, with very few exceptions, the city governments of the United States are the worst in Christendom — • the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the most corrupt.
92. lappuse - Any State desiring to avail itself of the provisions of this title shall have a State highway department which shall have adequate powers, and be suitably equipped and organized to discharge to the satisfaction of the Secretary the duties required by this title. Among other things, the organization shall include a secondary road unit.
176. lappuse - The Bureau of the Census in the Department of Commerce is the most significant single contributor.
67. lappuse - The word used in the Constitution, then, comprehends, and has been always understood to comprehend, navigation within its meaning ; and a power to regulate navigation is as expressly granted as if that term had been added to the word "commerce." To what commerce does this power extend? The Constitution informs us, to commerce "with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.
181. lappuse - gross as a mountain, open, palpable." But there is not a city with a population exceeding 200,000 where the poison germs have not sprung into a vigorous life ; and in some of the smaller ones, down to 70,000, it needs no microscope to note the results of their growth.