Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career also began early, as a member of Boston's Common Council and of the Massachusetts Legislature. After the War, Samuel Gompers called him to Washington to mix labor and politics as a lobbyist for the A. F. of L. He proved an expert at it, affable, friendly, fair, efficient. He systematically canvassed every member of Congress, treated them to persuasion but not to parties, being himself a teetotaler, having joined in youth the St. Peter & St. Paul Total Abstinence Society...
...also-ran of 1936 and his manager later produced a formal announcement: "Under the American system of government, the country needs an intelligent, constructive and militant minority. . . . This means the continuation of an active national headquarters that will be able to furnish the people of this country with a fair statement of facts. It means intelligent assistance to the Republican members of the United States Congress and, of more importance, the stimulation of the details of party organization. No man or woman who has assumed a position of leadership in the campaign just ended can fail to realize the deep...
...departmental heading LIFE on the American Newsfront, was depicted the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Superimposed on this aerial view was what no camera can yet show: The architect's drawing of the island which is to be built for the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair. Other featured items of picture-news were Louisiana's "Moses" foundling; the spectacular death of Minnesota's Dr. Joseph Graham Mayo, who drove his automobile up a railroad track; awards for diction and genius, respectively, to Actress Ina Claire and Playwright Eugene O'Neill; and the exhumation...
...shown a liberalism no less profound, if less spectacular than that of his old friend, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. His decision in the famed anti-trust case against the Sugar Institute in 1934 stands as a weighty legal precedent in the interpretation of "fair trade practice." On the morning of Armistice Day last week Judge Mack sat down in the big, airy room of the new Federal District Court in Manhattan's Foley Square to hear arguments in another great test case, this one brought by the Securities & Exchange Commission against the world's biggest electric utility...
...seven smart Manhattanites, including George McAneny, banker politician, Grover Aloysius Whalen, supersalesman and onetime Police Commissioner, and R. H. Macy & Co.'s President Percy Selden Straus, came together to discuss Mr. McAneny's theory that New York could outdo Chicago with a World's Fair even bigger & better than the Century of Progress. After a summer of conversations, Mr. McAneny & friends invited 121 Manhattan bigwigs to a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, proposed to them a plan for a World's Fair company. From the enthusiasm of that occasion sprang the most grandiose...