Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought Julius Fleischmann's 225-ft. yacht Camargo, renamed it Ramfis for his small brown son, announced a private pleasure trip to the New York World's Fair-via Washington. This squeeze play soon brought forth almost all the invitations Dictator Trujillo had yearned for-a gala at the Pan American Union, dinner with Acting Chief of Staff Marshall of the U. S. Army, audience with Secretary Hull, tea with Franklin Roosevelt. Also included in the program was a luncheon by Haiti's Minister Elie Lescot, to prove that Haiti has forgiven Trujillo for his troops...
Notable among the nonvacationers: Chase & Sanborn's Charlie McCarthy, who this Sunday visits the New York World's Fair to interview Grover Whalen on the high price of hot dogs...
...World of Tomorrow, 1,214 examples of "American Art Today" show contemporary ferment among U. S. artists; not far away are hung 400 serene successes by Old and still Older Masters (TIME, June 26). To assemble all this took the combined resources of a World's Fair and a big city...
...Tennessee mountains named Alvin Cullum York singlehanded killed 20 German soldiers, captured 132 more with a squad of seven men, returned to rugged Fentress County as No. 1 U. S. war hero. Last week Sergeant York, fat, arthritic and peace-loving, visited San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair, confessed: "I don't know what the last war was about...
...experiment. It was called "Pocket Books," consisted of ten former bestsellers, printed in full-size type on good paper, with washable paper binding. Priced at 25?, Pocket Books were the best-looking, most readable paperbound books so far. Promising also was the publisher. tall, dynamic, 44-year-old Robert Fair de Graff...