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Rare among cities, Cincinnati lies along her seven hills watching the lordly Ohio lap at her feet. Proud is the Queen City of her Gruen watches, her Ivory soap, her municipally-owned railway which brings her half a million a year, her celebrated zoo and outdoor opera, her beer, her famed families of Longworths and Tafts. Prouder still was she last week. Cincinnati had done for the fifth time what no other U. S. city of comparable size (452.000 pop.) had done twice in succession-reinaugurated a reform municipal government. And Cincinnati was that almost equally rare big town which...
...choked by the weeds of oldtime political organization, Philadelphians who had just succeeded in throwing a small monkey-wrench into the long-lived Vare machine, New Yorkers who were putting their second Fusion government in 20 years into the City Hall, could benefit by looking to well-governed Cincinnati for a lesson. The lesson was fresh from the presses in highly readable book form, City Management: The Cincinnati Experiment - by a bright young man who had associated himself with the movement from the beginning, who had gotten his political ideals from his Presidential father, his aggressive pertinacity from the football...
...cities have a blacker political past than Cincinnati. Extreme informality marked her electoral methods in the 20's. On election morning the first voters to the polls chose the judges. If a Democratic sheriff was in office, he was likely to round up all the Negroes in the calaboose for the day, lest they vote Republican. In the election of 1884, there were two fatal shootings and Election Judge William Howard Taft was one of the very few who went unarmed...
...climax the tale of how a group of decent energetic citizens rescued their town. The city paid 22% less for its street building materials in 1926 than it had in 1925. Dirt which had cost $1.35 a yd. in 1925, cost 35? a yd, a year later. In 1926 Cincinnati paid $36,000 less for street maintenance than it had the year before "when it rode on holes." "Where," asks Author Taft, "had the money gone?" Whereas in 1925 a citizen with a 50 ft. frontage was assessed $5.75 for street improvement, in 1927 he paid 97?, in later years...
These protests were still ringing in the air when once again the Blue Eagle loosed a claw full of lightning bolts. They singed a Passaic, N. J. beautician; scorched the owner of the New Deal Cafe in Cincinnati; crackled around five other restaurateurs from Evanston, 111. to Austin, Tex. All were ordered to surrender their NRA insignia. But NRA announced that of 3.000.000 Blue Eagles issued, only 48 had so far been recalled...