Small Business in Smaller Cities and Towns: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, First- Session[s] Pursuant to H. Res. 53 ...

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Page 240 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Page 262 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 244 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 258 - My name is Clyde T. Ellis, general manager of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Mr.
Page 418 - That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed...
Page 304 - Local organizations throughout the country have shown an intense interest in requesting assistance under the provisions of Public Law 566, the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of August 4.
Page 259 - And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvariea cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land.
Page 204 - Various groups such as the National League of Cities, the Council of State Governments, and the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations have...
Page 202 - Act shall be sold at public sale upon sealed proposals after (1) at least ten days' notice published at least once in a publication carrying municipal bond notices and devoted primarily to financial news or to the subject of State and municipal bonds, and (2) at least ten days' notice published at least once in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the District.
Page 259 - And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

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