Building Codes
Cry Wolf Quotes
I don’t think the public is going to gain anything by forcing the small baker out of business.
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Frank P. Hill, representative of the New York Retail Bakers’ Association. Only date available: 1913.
I do not believe in legislation so radical that it means an attack on the valuation of real estate or driving out of our state manufacturing concerns or other large business enterprises.
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Governor Martin Glynn (D) sides with the business interests, signaling the Factory Investigating Commission’s declining power.
The Real Estate Board of New York is informed that thousands of factories are migrating to New Jersey and Connecticut in order to be freed from the oppressive laws of New York State.
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Op-ed by George W. Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board.
The owners of real property are becoming terrified by the number of laws which have been enacted affecting real property in New York City…in each succeeding year there is a law passed…This compels the owner to expend…large sums of money, which…are absolutely needless and useless.
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Op-ed by George W. Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board.
