Word: localitis
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...bill is national, not local, in its operation.- Public Opinion, February 25, 1888; Congressional Record, vol. 17, part II., p. 1474; North American Review, vol. 136, p. 337. 2, It encourages local effort on the part of the states.- Congressional record, vol. 17, part...
...unwise to pass the Blair bill because: (a) It is obviously a local measure.- Congressional Record, pp. 1238. (b) It is based upon statistics clearly false at the present time.- Nation, vol. 42, p. 207. (c) The apportionment is made on a false standard.- Nation, March...
...Thomas B. Shearman of Brooklyn, N. Y., desiring to encourage the efforts of college and university students, and others, in economic studies, has offered through the American Economic Association the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for the best essay on the subject of "State and local taxation on personal property in the United States...
...laws needed to establish a better system of taxation. It is expected in brief that taxation of personal property will be taken as a starting point of the entire investigation, and that all inquiries will be made to centre in this; that defects in American state and local taxation will be pointed out; that improvements will be suggested; that the competitors will base all conclusions on a careful study of statistical and historical material: finally that the question will be treated with special, although not exclusive reference to the farmer...
...ladies can. It is true the members of the club were not hissed: and yet few audiences would have refrained from hissing under the circumstances. I have talked with many persons who were present, and they are unanimous in their condemnation. A portion of the report given in the local papers follows...