Word: expositioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston-born, Davis Wilson at 20 went to Vermont as an assistant to the attorney general in a crime crusade, was set upon and stabbed by thugs, killed one of them. Later in Washington he was "assistant" for four years to the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Chaplain of the U...
Held less to stimulate the almost non-existent Italian cinema industry than to attract tourists, the International Motion Picture Exposition in Venice always succeeds in producing mild surprises. Year ago first award went to Man of Aran (TIME, Sept. 24) but the most popular picture at the show was Extase...
¶The California State Fair in Sacramento hoped to overcome the competition of the San Diego Exposition with such features as pari-mutuel betting at horse races and equestrianism.
Having on his hands a number of undernourished, rickety and tuberculous youngsters. Jenkins optimistically decided "My children's lungs would get strong by blowing wind instruments." He obtained some battered horns, organized a band which he sent North in 1893 to play on street corners for whatever passersby would give...
Some 5,000 persons, one by one, climbed into the driver's seat, took hold of the steering wheel, put right foot on the accelerator, left foot on the floorboards, looked at the green traffic light in the pillar before them. The scene was not a highway but the psychological...