Home Rule and Reorganization for the District of Columbia: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittees on Home Rule and Reorganization of the Senate and House Committees on the District of Columbia, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1968 and H. R. 4902, Bills Providing for Home Rule and Reorganization of Government of the District of Columbia, February 2 to 10, 1948U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 557 páginas |
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... interest in this report was immediate and prompted much dis- cussion in the press locally and indeed throughout the country . Criti- cisms and suggestions were made and the subcommittee considered them all at many meetings , and on ...
... interest in this report was immediate and prompted much dis- cussion in the press locally and indeed throughout the country . Criti- cisms and suggestions were made and the subcommittee considered them all at many meetings , and on ...
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... interest in its future prosperity . It is to be noted that any person residing here , who does not pay the required ... interests lie elsewhere . On either assumption , a District Council thus made up seems to us to be a very dubious ...
... interest in its future prosperity . It is to be noted that any person residing here , who does not pay the required ... interests lie elsewhere . On either assumption , a District Council thus made up seems to us to be a very dubious ...
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... interest , the annual carrying charge would be nearly $ 13,000,000 . The interest alone would be nearly $ 5,000,000 , which is about half the amount that has been spent annually in recent years for capital improvements under the general ...
... interest , the annual carrying charge would be nearly $ 13,000,000 . The interest alone would be nearly $ 5,000,000 , which is about half the amount that has been spent annually in recent years for capital improvements under the general ...
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... interest in is that 10 per value that you may borrow for capital improvements o is a matter which has bothered every municipal gov whole United States of America . In my recent study cities of this country , all relatively the same size ...
... interest in is that 10 per value that you may borrow for capital improvements o is a matter which has bothered every municipal gov whole United States of America . In my recent study cities of this country , all relatively the same size ...
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... interests of the Federal Government would best be served by passing the ordinance in its introduced form , by passing it in an amended form suggested by the Board , or by its rejec- tion . The District Council may then , after public ...
... interests of the Federal Government would best be served by passing the ordinance in its introduced form , by passing it in an amended form suggested by the Board , or by its rejec- tion . The District Council may then , after public ...
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Página 191 - ... to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom and for these ends to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors...
Página 476 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States ; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State or of the United States...
Página 191 - We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small...
Página 479 - That place shall be considered and held to be the residence of a person in which his habitation is fixed, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning.
Página 460 - Queretaro, and every male naturalized citizen thereof, who shall have become such ninety days prior to any election, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of the State one year...
Página 474 - ... no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States ; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State or of the United States, or of the high seas ; nor while a student of any seminary of learning, nor while kept at any almshouse or other asylum at public expense ; nor while confined in any public prison.
Página 39 - It is undoubtedly true that the District of Columbia is a separate political community in a certain sense, and in that sense may be called a State : but the sovereign power of this qualified State is not lodged in the corporation 'of the District of Columbia, but in the government of the United States. Its supreme legislative body is Congress. The subordinate...
Página 191 - Nations shall promote . . . universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.
Página 425 - Commission and he is now actively engaged in helping to establish centennial commissions in each of the 48 States and in the District of Columbia.
Página 503 - Legislative power, as distinguished from executive power, is the authority to make laws, but not to enforce them or appoint the agents charged with the duty of such enforcement. The latter are executive functions.