https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/greater-philadelphia-movement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=greater-philadelphia-movement Connecting the Past with the Present, Building Community, Creating a Legacy Mon, 28 Mar 2022 15:27:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/greater-philadelphia-movement/comment-page-1/#comment-1569023 Thu, 02 Apr 2020 18:08:11 +0000 https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/?p=19231#comment-1569023 Very good article about a now forgotten period in Philadelphia’s history.

]]> https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/greater-philadelphia-movement/comment-page-1/#comment-1392246 Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:53:50 +0000 https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/?p=19231#comment-1392246 Thanks for this entry. The 1949-1951 charter reform effort was a continuation of a previous attempt to reform the charter ten years earlier that was stymied by the Republican state legislature. World War II delayed the renewed effort from 1939 to 1949. See Hoeber, Johannes U., “Philadelphia Carries On,” National Municipal Review XXVIII, 9, September 1939.

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