Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sources of the deposits or the source which enables him to maintain the scale of living beyond the amount of his salary." The Federal administration to date has given the Kelly administration little or no patronage. Carter Harrison, longtime Mayor, son of the 1893 World's Fair Mayor, was made a Collector of Internal Revenue over the Cermak-Kelly candidate for that job. Ed Kelly will probably be remembered principally as the World's Fair Mayor of 1933. In that difficult job he has handled himself with grace and dignity, made a good host to millions of visitors...
...ordered dancing girls to cover their nakedness. On a second visit he found the Fair audiences applauding the change. Said he: "After all, the general public is pretty decent." Public decency was now being put to another test as the coverings were stripped off Mayor Kelly's private finances. Even his friends found it hard to get away from the fact that his official income never exceeded $18,000 per year, which was exempt from Federal taxation; that his tax settlement on $450,000 for three years coincided with the Sanitary District's "whoopee era." After the Sanitary...
...Last week the Fair was half over. It had taken in $13,211,214 from 10,000,000 cash customers. To break even this autumn its total receipts must more than double that figure. As a popular attraction it has fallen far below the estimates of enthusiasts who boasted that 50,000,000 persons would attend. "The Streets of Paris" continued to lead all concessions in popularity...
Barometer of Progress. "The destiny of Cuba is in the balance," cried Provisional President de Cespedes last week. "The price of sugar is the barometer of Cuban progress. Without a fair profit Cuba cannot produce sugar and the resources of the Government will diminish." The U.S. sugar stake in Cuba, virtually a one-crop country, can be estimated from the fact that U.S. citizens own through corporate investments nearly 70% of the islands' sugar production. Their sugar bonds, debentures and stocks, bought for some $600,000,000, are worth today less than $50,000,000, and at that...
...Hammer Collection-largest in the U. S.† And though Collector Hammer was tagged as "first concessionaire in the U. S. S. R.," few people knew just who he was. More of the collection appeared at the Waldorf-Astoria, in Chicago at Marshall Field's, at the Fair. Last week Collector Hammer bobbed up in the news with the announcement that he had two U. S. cooperage plants running full blast making beer kegs from Russian whiteoak staves. Sensing the beer keg shortage he had wangled out of Moscow last May a contract for the entire Russian output...