The American City, Volume 21Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold Sinley Buttenheim Buttenheim Publishing Corporation, 1919 |
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Popular passages
Page 452 - It may be put forth in aid of what is sanctioned by usage, or held by the prevailing morality or strong and preponderant opinion to be greatly and immediately necessary to the public welfare.
Page 134 - So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth ; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.
Page 452 - We hold that the police power of a state embraces regulations designed to promote the public convenience or the general prosperity, as well as regulations designed to promote the public health, the public morals, or the public safety...
Page 234 - Nor does it appear why the citizens should be deprived of the stimulating effects of the fear of liability on the energy and care of its officials; nor why a city should be exempt from liability while a private corporation under the same circumstances should be held responsible for its conduct and made to contribute to the innocent persons it may have damaged.
Page 581 - ... was such an open and obvious danger as that, considering his age, intelligence, experience, judgment and discretion, he ought, in the exercise of reasonable and ordinary care, to have known and appreciated it, then the law is that the plaintiff assumed the risk of such danger, and that he cannot recover.
Page 314 - ... the Revolutionary War. the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish War, the World War.
Page 473 - ... work and proper working conditions, to a decent home, to the opportunity to play, to learn, to worship and to love, as well as to toil, and...
Page 509 - They have, on the contrary, stimulated physicians to use laboratory service more frequently than before, which has resulted in more effective control of communicable disease. The central laboratory is maintained by the State. The branch laboratories are maintained in part by the State and in part by the county or town in which the laboratory is located. There is considerable variation in the amount of work done during the different seasons of the year, the maximum amount of work being done during...
Page 351 - 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 32 - The jurisdiction now exercised by the board of aldermen concerning the naming of streets, the planting and removal of trees in the public ways, the issue of permits or licenses for coasting, the storage of gasoline, oil, and other inflammable substances or explosive compounds and the use of the public ways for any permanent or temporary obstruction or projection in, under, or over the same, including the location of conduits, poles, and posts for telephone, telegraph, street railway, or illuminating...