Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...myself, presented the identical illusion many times in Canada, the U. S. and Cuba, using a girl. I saw it performed, in the open, at the Chicago World's Fair two years ago and at the San Diego Exposition May 10 this year during Magicians Day at the fair...
...Democratic platform declared for social security, for fair prices for consumers, for rural electrification, for decent housing, for freedom of speech & press, for extension of the civil service ("to all non-policy-making positions in the Federal service"), against monopoly, war and international entanglements. With such lofty aims in themselves, neither Republicans nor the Republican platform take serious issue. But specific differences there are on several points between the two platforms. Notably...
...Republicans' vague but earnest promise to end crop restriction, the Democrats matched with a declaration in favor of "the production of all the market will absorb, both at home and abroad, plus a reserve supply sufficient to insure fair prices to consumers." To most observers that sounded like crop control stated backwards. Into the farm plank also went such pledges as continued benefit pay ments, Government refinancing of farm debts, encouragement of cooperatives, retirement of submarginal land, "recognition" of the evils of farm tenancy...
Industries Fair and pulling up his trouser leg to reveal that he wears British garter-less, elastic-top socks...
...wives betray their Sultan on the stage with Negro slaves, afterward are butchered by the Sultan's soldiers. Although cultivated Mayfair and Manhattan consider Scheherezade merely esthetic, the Sheik & Sons watched it with savage joy, their nostrils quivering and eyes bugging as the Negro slaves and fair wives heaved. "The Sheik never mentions his own wives to unbelievers," confided a member of His Highness' suite. "To them he speaks of the prowess of his sons...