Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franciscans went indigenous and played Old West in the streets for days before their fair's official opening. They renamed Polk Street "Polk Gulch" and hung out signs like "Red eye, 15?. Black eye, free." In San Francisco they know how to give parties and this was one given by the whole city to the vanguard of 4,000,000 visitors from other States who they estimate will spend $400,000,000 in California this year, $240,000,000 of it right in San Francisco. For a tourist's map of that city...
...Grover Aloysius Whalen,* yet is just as sound a financier and heady planner. An engineer named William Peyton Day made cruise after patient cruise taking soundings of the shoals north of Yerba Buena (Goat) Island, perfecting the idea of pumping up out of the Bay's black bottom a site for the fair which could later serve the city as an airport. Crafty Democrat George Creel got WPA to pay for the pumping...
...follows: "The question was asked if the babies and small children in the exodus to the roadsides had milk to drink, and was answered by an onlooker that the only milk given the babies was titty milk and when that gave out they were put on black coffee...
...French paintings from the product* he trademarked in 1902 and manufactured until 1930. He got his artistic taste from the sound advice of the late William Glackens (TIME, Dec. 26), from persistent study and from the inquisitive philosophy of his friend John Dewey (see p. 56). White-headed, black-browed Dr. Barnes got his temper, according to his enemies, from the devil himself. Those who have offended him the full-blooded doctor has often publicly kicked in the teeth, with obstreperous rhetoric. In 1937 it was the Pennsylvania Museum, for buying what the doctor considered a fifth-rate Cezanne (TIME...
Chairman McKinsey's success was magnificent but brief. In 1935 and 1936 Marshall Field was back in the black; in 1937 things went to pot all over again. For one thing, Professor McKinsey had anticipated a small cotton crop. When it turned out huge, the manufacturing division lost heavily on its large cotton orders. Even worse, Professor McKinsey never saw Depression II coming at all and the manufacturing division's top-heavy inventories perfectly exemplified U. S. business' 1937 sin. By year's end the manufacturing division had lost some $5,000,000, Marshall Field...