Word: expositioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dividing the $3,000,000 velvet from the Federal Government was another matter. Houston, as Texas' biggest city (292,000), got $400,000 for memorializing the battlefield of San Jacinto. San Antonio as third largest (232,000) got $440,000 for repairing the Alamo. Austin, the state capital, is...
Exposition. With a parade of floats behind him and a pageant of Texas history "under six flags"* before him, Governor Allred will this week tell the world by radio that the Exposition has opened. There next week Franklin Roosevelt will make the major speech of his three-day visit to...
A $25,000,000 show is what Dallas advertises, but of that sum $12,000,000 is credited to exhibitors (largest: Ford $2,250,000; General Motors $950,000; Chrysler $500,000) and $5,000,000 to concessionaires. Actual amount put into the Fair by the management is somewhat less...
Three major difficulties stood in the way. First was that the Dallas Exposition comes right on top of two World's Fairs, Chicago's and San Diego's. Dallas stole their thunder. The Dallas Fair buildings are in a style reminiscent of the Century of Progress, but...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt laid his plans for the Republican National Convention. Whether Congress adjourns for good or merely recesses over the convention, the President announced that he would leave Washington the day before the Republicans officially assemble in Cleveland. On the second day of their convention he would be...