Benefits of Galveston Commission Government Advocate System
A center discussion outlines the Galveston commission form of government as efficient and accountable. It argues that a mayor and four at large commissioners enable direct supervision, clear budgets, and reduced voter complexity while preserving democratic control and preventing graft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benefits Commission
Galveston
George Kibbe Turner
McClure
Economic Club of Boston
Bush Department
Gah
City government by municipal boards as checks on graft
The speaker argues for municipal board of directors as a guard against dishonesty and incompetence in city government. They acknowledge risks of power concentration but contend the system promotes vigilance, transparency, and public accountability, keeping graft and inefficiency in check.
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Texas
Municipal Board of Directors
Magnate Schwab Best Reporter
Boston May 15 One of the most comprehensive yet terse interviews with Charles M Schwab president of Bethlehem Steel was obtained as he left the Fore River Ship and Engine plant in Quincy He answered questions in three minutes covering business strategy tariffs Japan labor socialism J P Morgan and equality saying the steel business is too big to expand and that Massachusetts is railroading the state to ruin The reporter ended with no further questions and Schwab invited a return visit.
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Boston
Chirles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Company
Fore River Ship and Engine Company
Quincy
Wilson
Japan
Massachusetts
J. P. Morgan
What’s the Use of May Time
Poem describes a sunny spring scene in May with bees birds and flowers. The speaker ponders laziness and finds joy in nature and love while asking what is the use of mourning during the time of May. The verse celebrates bright meadows streams and happiness.
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Nesta
Mexican loan for railroad restoration seen near assured
London May 15 reports a $25,000,000 Mexican loan for railroad restoration appears practically arranged in London and Paris amid talks and official discussions. The item notes vigorous investment chatter and references proxy considerations in the discourse.
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London
Paris
Rural two room school with workshop at National Exposition
A model two room rural school with a basement workshop and an outdoor amplitheatre will be built for the National Conservation Exposition in Knoxville Tennessee. Dr F B Dressiar directs plans with Miss Catherine Mulligan supervising home economics and Miss Harriet A Bayes assisting. The exhibit will show manual training sewing cooking and games for lower grades with higher grade handwork and exercises, plus displays from many schools and colleges and a survey of education progress in the south. Gifford Pinchot chairs the national advisory board overseeing conservation exhibits.
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Washington, Dp. C
Knoxville
Tennessee
F. B. Dressiar
United States Bureau of Education
Catherine Mulligan
Mome Economics
University of Tennessee
Bureau of Education
BH. BE. Ball
P. P. Claxton
U.S
American Life Restless and Feverish Says Countess Krasicka
London May 15. Countess Krasicka tells New York reporters on returning from Europe that American life is restless and hard and intolerable to real culture. She says money dominates, Americans lack calmness and ease, and their amusements reveal a practiced toiler mentality rather than leisure. She criticizes patriotism toward the Statue of Liberty as obvious and matter of fact.
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London
Hugh B. Chapman
Chapel Royal
Savoy
America
Countess Krasicka
New York
Europe
United States
Gayety
His Satanic Majesty and the invention of politics
A wry, concise remark suggesting that the concept of politics may have roots in a devilish origin and implying political systems evolve from dark cunning rather than pure virtue. The sentence frames politics as an artful, perhaps malevolent, human invention.
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Magnate Schwab
eHard
KODAK
Kodaks
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Centra
Carey
C. H. Garwood
San Francisco
Kerry Hacon
Lincoln Memorial
Washington
Jules Guerin
Cheyenne
Ellis
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