The American City, Volume 19Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold Sinley Buttenheim Buttenheim Publishing Corporation, 1918 - Cities and towns |
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 14 - I am a member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and chairman of its taxation committee.
Page 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.
Page 457 - State for the salaries of teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects shall, if expended, be applied to part-time schools or classes for workers over 14 years of age who have entered upon employment...
Page 287 - ... Offends public decency; or, 3. Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs, or tends to obstruct, or renders dangerous for passage, a lake, or a navigable river, bay, stream, canal or basin, or a...
Page 310 - ... be habitually and regularly engaged in some lawful, useful and recognized business, profession, occupation, trade or employment until the termination of such war.
Page 108 - State bureau of municipal information of the New York State Conference of Mayors and other City Officials.
Page 63 - I lurk in unseen places, and do most of my work silently. You are warned against me, but you heed not. I am relentless. I am everywhere, in the home, on the streets, in the factory, at railroad crossings, and on the sea.
Page 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.