How to Work a City Manager Like a Horse
A condensed excerpt reviews the city manager plan command structure and duties. It cites law Chapter 419 on accountability and lists 12 core duties including enforcement, council attendance, administration supervision, contracting, hiring and firing, public works, utilities, surveys and plans, and municipal services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corporation Council
Board of Review
Library Board
Board of Waterworks Trustees
Farouk Gambles in France and Other Briefes
On the spot reports say King Farouk gambled from midnight until dawn in a French casino playing Baccarat, with a claimed win or loss of 100000 dollars. A Christian Temperance Union leader urged Congress to ban beer shipments to Korea’s armed forces. Oleg Cassini disclosed two punches stopped two aggressors, though he had vowed not to fight. A Australian woman reportedly took three days to have quadruplets. The Colonel’s weekly editorial was missing from the Tribune, while WGN hinted at a forthcoming book titled The War Without Grant.
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Egypt
Farouk
France
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Congress
Korea
Oleg Cassini
Gene Tierney
Oleg
Birthday curiosities from birth rites to birthstones
The piece traces how birthdays entered culture from primitive birth rites to modern notions of birth dates and anniversaries. It reviews definitions of birth and birthday in dictionaries, then lists birthstones for each month and explains gem terms such as sardonyx peridot chrysolite and chalcedony in a light, exploratory tone.
Opinionated Public column riffs on town chatter and oddities
The column riffs on local life in Burlington with playful notes about public opinion, a marquee joke about an $800 riverfront house, parking woes, pennies for parkers, and a rumor that a Navy unit may take over half the Hotel Burlington for quarters.
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Observer
New Yorker Magazine
Capitol Theater
Burlington
Navy
Fair City
Europeans Study American Hotels
Western European hotel owners are adopting American style comforts under Marshall Plan aid. Clarence K. Dwinell will advise on reconstruction and operations in Paris while ECA funds tours bring 51 industry representatives from 15 countries to study U S hotels inns motels and restaurants.
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Washington
Economic Cooperation Administration
Clarence K. Dwinell
Paris
ECA
Europe
Milton Katz
Dwinell
Williamsburg
Pennsylvania
Pocono Mountains
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Robert Payton
Iowa
Australia
Chicagoland
Tribune
WGN
Magazine of Books
Grant
Bertie
Parkers
Capital
New
Sandra Stahl
Mary Jane Hayes
Sandra
Air Force
Pentagon
International
Uncle Jim
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