Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hotel Breslin in Manhattan something was going on that would have delighted. It was a toy fair at which the toy manufacturers were convened to display their tempting devices: kiddy cars, little red sleds, drums, dolls, waddling ducks, electric railroad trains, blocks, toy ships, toy soldiers and whatnot...
Clarence Kinne, Chairman of the Toy Fair, went on to elaborate...
...issue but Locarno, the political horizon was deemed so clear that President Herriot of the Chamber departed on a visit to Lyons, of which city he is Mayor. The President of the Republic announced his intention of leaving Paris for a few days to open the Lyons Spring Fair. Finance Minister Doumer cabled to London and proposed to resume the Franco-British debt negotiations. An almost ominous optimism prevailed...
President Doumergue postponed all steps toward a new Cabinet over the weekend, went out and opened the Lyons Fair, as he had promised. Later he returned with M. Herriot...
...Paul von Hindenburg" he was called before the War, when he was on the army pension list. "Hoch! Hoch!! Hoch der President!!!" roared the crowds last week. Dutifully, imperturbably, impressively the old soldier rode to the site of the Leipsic Spring Fair...