The American City, Volym 19Harold S. Buttenheim Civic Press., 1918 |
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Sida 513 - These directions may include signals for slowing down, stopping, backing, approaching or departing from any place, the manner of taking up or setting down passengers, and the loading and unloading of any material.
Sida 161 - Bureau of Welfare of School Children, New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 105 East Twenty-second Street, New York City.) Religious Community Service.
Sida 287 - public nuisance " is a crime against the order and economy of the state, and consists in unlawfully doing an act, or omitting to perform a duty, which act or omission : 1. Annoys, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of any considerable number of persons ; or, 2.
Sida 131 - The distance between trees in any one row in feet. e. — The nature of the soil in planting space, to a depth of three feet, and all existing and proposed surface or subsoil drainage systems. All statements filed in lieu of planting plans shall contain the same information as required on a plan. Any person, firm or corporation which shall violate, or authorize or procure a violation of any provision of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of not to exceed five dollars...
Sida 214 - ... the war continues there will be constant need of very large numbers of men and women of the highest and most thorough training for war service in many lines. After the war there will be urgent need not only for trained leadership in all lines of industrial, commercial, social and civic life, but for a very high average of intelligence and preparation on the part of all the people.
Sida 108 - State bureau of municipal information of the New York State Conference of Mayors and other City Officials.
Sida 65 - ... same manner as under the preferential system ie the voter signifies his preference for candidates by placing a number beside each name on the ballot paper. However a different method is adopted in the counting of votes. The total number of first preference votes recorded for all candidates is divided by one more than the number of candidates to be elected and the resulting quotient plus one is taken as the quota necessary for a candidate to be elected. When a candidate receives a number of first...
Sida 513 - ... to preclude the honest practitioner from putting himself in a position where he may be required to choose between conflicting duties, or be led to an attempt to reconcile conflicting interests, rather than to enforce to their full extent the rights of the interest which he should alone represent.
Sida 345 - When Belgium Stemmed the Tide Four years ago the Belgian Army, war-worn and weak in numbers, confronted the Germans on the Yser. From Liege to the last narrow strip of their country they had resisted the invaders inch by inch, glorious even in retreat. At the Yser the Belgians performed a signal service to the Allied cause by holding the Germans while the gaps were being closed in the Franco-British line to the rear.
Sida 241 - The incurring of indebtedness beyond the amount limited is absolutely and unqualifiedly prohibited, no matter what the necessity, pretext, or circumstances may be, except those provided for in said article, or the form which the indebtedness is made to assume. It binds the courts, curbs the power of the legislature, the officials, and the people themselves, and was intended to protect the taxpayers by confining the indebtedness of a municipal corporation within a prescribed limit.