Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producer, his name appeared last week as entrepreneur of a whole festival of Coward plays which arrived in Manhattan. Actor-Author Coward had written them, directed them, scored them for music, provided in each a part for himself and Gertrude Lawrence. In so doing he seemed in a fair way to add to his record pile...
...reporters and editors tried to improve the condition by forming a perfectly legal and orthodox trade union, you fought them hoof and claw. ... It is hard to resist a conclusion that you are in favor of trade unions when they are already strong and can beat you in a fair fight, but opposed to them when you think they are crushable." No news is one more attack on Publisher Hearst by the pinkish New Republic. But Editor Bliven's was only one of many voices that have lately been raised against the Nation's most prominent publisher...
...came from Los Angeles, where a correspondent reported that the State Supreme Court of California had ruled that "there is nothing in the State statutes prohibiting pawnbrokers and personal property brokers from charging any rate of interest they please." Big fiction feature of The Pawnbrokers' Journal was "A Fair Exchange" by Harry Irving Shumway. This story opens with Pawnbroker Moe Epstein appraising a diamond for his friend Marcus. Says Moe: "A full quarter of a carat but the dirtiest diamond I ever see. Nine dollars is the very positive limit." Marcus offers to trade the diamond for a tray...
Preliminary studies for the New York World's Fair and original lithographs of Boulder Dam and other national engineering projects are now on display in Robinson Hall, main building of the Graduate School of Design...
...plans for the World's Fair were made available through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and include maps of the area to be used, together with preliminary sketches of the landscape and architectural development of the proposed area...