Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose of the Guild, he said, is to establish a fair balance of power between the publisher and the employee, and to ensure fair wages and hours. He disclaimed any other motives in the Guild's drive to unionize the newspaper industry...
Theme of the New York Fair is "Building the World of Tomorrow." This it is now busily doing in Flushing Meadows, a filled-in swamp nine miles from Manhattan, once beloved by rats but now graced by two artificial lakes, handsome landscaping. Only building finished is the Administration Building where most of the Fair Corporation's 900-odd employes work and where dressy President Whalen holds forth in a copper-lined board room. Like the Chicago A Century of Progress, the Administration Building is showily modern, as apparently will be most of some 350 other projected buildings which eventually...
...last week for the winter, will presumably also be subject to such budgetary juggling. For it cost $64,600,000, of which an estimated $49,000,000 came as a direct Government subsidy. By last week 33,724,295 patrons had paid some $4,746,000 to see the Fair's gaudy structures clustered along the Seine. To reopen them next year is expected to cost another $16,950,000. In the Chamber of Deputies this week there was strong opposition to the idea from outlying provinces which dislike the thought of their trade suffering while Paris gains...
...York, As Grover Whalen, its president, is quick to point out, the 1939 New York World's Fair is a bird of a very different color from the Paris Exposition. Instead of a government-conceived, directed and subsidized essay in national propaganda, it is a privately-conceived and financed attempt by New York businessmen to drum up new trade. Inspired by the success in this respect of the Chicago A Century of Progress in 1933-34, 118 leading New Yorkers in 1935 formed New York World's Fair 1939 Inc., a nonprofit, nonstock corporation whose officers...
...Francisco. Since the International Convention of Expositions awarded to New York the honor of holding the World's Fair of 1939, San Francisco's rival notions have been somewhat adrift. San Franciscans point out that Congress designated their Fair, which will begin in February 1939, two months before New York's, as "America's official World's Fair of the West in 1939." Its actual title, however, is "Golden Gate International Exposition" with the major subtitle "Pageant of the Pacific...