Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt made a point of sleeping through Herr Hitler's speech at 6 a. m. E. S. T. So far as he was concerned, Hitler was "stopped" for the time being and the President of the U. S. was busy at home. He had a World's Fair to open, visiting royalty to entertain...
...famed Professor John R. Commons. Later he taught economics at Antioch College, where his students called him "Uncle Billy." He has been a careerist in mediation and arbitration-for NRA, for the petroleum industry, finally (in 1934) for the railroads as chairman of the National Mediation Board. So good & fair at his calling is William Leiserson that he is often asked to mediate outside the railway field. In his last such important chore, ruling that messenger boys come under the Wage & Hour Law, he did not forget to butter up big Western Union and other complaining companies with kindly words...
...want you to understand there's no nudity in our show; we're not running anything like that Rand woman's ranch. We've got 156 beautiful Aquagals here, and they all wear something," Eleanor ("Aquabelle") Holm said in an interview on the opening day of the World's Fair...
Seated in her private dressing room behind the scenes of the giant amphitheatre where her husband Billy Rose daily wows Fair audiences with his Aquacade, the shapely backstroker turned repturously to the subject of Harvard boys...
Several of the fair culprits had invaded the Yard and were busily engaged in decorating the statue in front of University Hall with a wig, cap and gown, and strangely enough, a hoop...