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...political favoritism from metropolitan government. It provides for the appointment by the Council of a paid administrator; he runs the city, prepares the budget, appoints subordinates according to civil service laws, while the mayor loses his powers of appointment and veto. The Council, reduced to nine members, performs the function of a board of directors, since it can remove the manager after a hearing. More important for the voters is that the Councilmen are elected at large by proportional representation, which eliminates the primary and reflects, in Dean Landis's words, "as accurately as human ingenuity can devise, the complexion...
This course is part of the new program, introduced by Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, to emphasize architecture as a social function...
Looked at a different way, this is the 301st year of the University, since the College did not begin to function until the summer...
Careful to keep a protective New Deal coloration on his voting record, John O'Connor used his chief function-as chairman of the powerful Rules Committee-to bottle up New Deal legislation, notably the Wages-&-Hours Bill, which Rules twice kept off the floor until the White House prodded the House into discharging the bill from committee. Already marked for Purge when he went back to the Gashouse to campaign this spring, Congressman O'Connor wrote a letter to the New Dealish Daily News, claiming that his only actual anti-New Deal vote was against Reorganization...
...same theme is that, instead of a golden-haired heroine, the Prince (Raymond Massey) maltreats his brown-faced little Hindu nephew (Sabu). Busily organizing a gigantic revolt of all the border tribes from Afghanistan to China, Guhl undertakes to cross a tight-lipped British cavalry captain (Roger Livesey), whose function in the film is roughly equivalent to that of the Lone Ranger in a mess jacket. By the time this error has had its inevitable consequences, small Sabu is back on the throne where he belongs, and U. S. audiences, if they feel faintly cheated because there has not been...