Word: display
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gibert and Sullivan display are handbills, programs, and pictures, tracing the developments of the operettas from their original performances to the present day. Features of the exhibit are photographs of the modern D'Gyly Carte productions and of the recent "swing" versions produced in New York...
...call on Cornell S. Franklin, Chairman of the Settlement's Municipal Council. For 17 months since Japan took Shanghai, said Mr. Miura, anti-Japanese newspapers in Chinese and English had been publishing matter highly offensive to Japan. It would be nice if they stopped. In a noteworthy display of the better-part-of-valor, Chairman Franklin "agreed to take appropriate measures"-suppress them...
...will sell nothing on the premises, it is investing only in advertising and goodwill. Whether this huge expenditure (plus the cost of operating the exhibit) will pan out is General Motors' worry. Grover Whalen sold it to them. The same may be said for many another individual display. Several industries, such as railroads, glass,* aviation, utilities and petroleum, recognizing the fact, got together on cooperative exhibits where the heavy cost is split and individual trademarks are played down...
...them all. There was a nasty squabble with Engineer Shadgen. Given a $625-a-month berth at the fair, he was presently fired as incompetent. When he brought suit for $2,000,000 the fair settled with him for $45,000. Then there was the proposed Freedom Pavilion to display the works of pre-Nazi Germans and those exiled by Nazidom. This looked as though it might cause trouble and, according to an article in this week's Nation, was quietly squelched by its professed friends after Grover Whalen had promised it a site-an incident that aroused bitter...
...occasional ultramodern doodad. Evidence of Whalen the businessman is tactfully absent. But Whalen the civic leader shows in prints of old New York, Whalen the horseman in a framed blue-ribbon, Whalen the family man in a group shot of his attractive wife and three children. And the gadgets display the Whalen flair for imaginative showmanship. Each step in one flight of stairs is a drawer. A flick of the hand converts part of his bar into a spare...