Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard lesson, but it is one that will have to be learned. When Germans universally find that the universe detests their masters, and that precisely these masters-no one else-have made life unbearable for them, then we may look for a change, and not before. Let the fair play of Americans be trusted to see that the odium falls only upon Germans in high places...
Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, New York City's handsome Official Greeter and Police Commissioner in years gone by, now the maestro of its 1939 World's Fair, last week sat through a curious meeting in the Fair's administration building. Absent was George A. McAneny, the Fair's first promoter who was demoted to chairman of the Fair corporation board to make way for President Whalen. Present was a tall, shy, greying civil engineer named Joseph F. Shadgen. By proxy Mr. McAneny had to admit that Engineer Shadgen was really the man who "originated" the Fair...
Rather than let the case go to trial, Maestro Whalen last week settled with Engineer Shadgen for $45,000 cash, re-engaged him as a consultant for the Fair's duration...
Engineer Shadgen, a fiftyish native of Luxemburg, has had his ups & downs in engineering, at one time making as high as $150,000 a year. He credits his daughter Jacqueline, now 16, with really having the Fair idea first. In 1934, when she learned that the U. S. would be 150 years old in 1939, she asked her father if anyone was planning to celebrate. When he said no, she said: "Why don't you do it, Daddy?" That got him started. He picked the Flushing marshes because he lived near them, in Jackson Heights. He does not consider...
NORTH WOODSTOCK: 7 inches of powder. 18 above and clear, skiing fair...