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supplementary budget and instead reminded city department heads of a $ 1,000 legal penalty for any official who spent beyond his appropriation. He eliminated paid holiday's for city employees by finding an ordinance that had never been enforced. Bauer refused to start any new street construction and instead initiated a program of street patching. He shut down the city incinerator after the maintenance costs were found to be twice what had been estimated. He instead sold garbage collection rights and made a profit. Bauer took away keys to office buildings from the police department on the grounds that officers loafed inside at night instead of patrolling. He also had the police department take the census instead of hiring outside census takers. In order to get more ideas for economy in city government, Bauer held a contest among city employees.
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Louis M. Lyons of " Lynn with an iron hand. Mussolini has scarcely a freer hand and more direct personal
Government than Ralph S. Bauer". Upon taking office, Bauer took over city's purchasing department in order to better control municipal spending. In his first year, he refused to issue a
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peddlers. In 1926 he ordered that the city's beauty parlors remain closed on
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RALPH S. BAUER; Mayor of Lynn, Mass., 1926-30, Was Head of News Company
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