Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copies of the Magna Charta, basic charter of freemen's rights handed by King John of England to his rebellious barons at Runnymede (A.D. 1215), arrived in Manhattan on the Queen Mary. Delivering the document to Mayor LaGuardia, to be sent to the New York World's Fair grounds, Sir Louis Beale, British commissioner-general to the fair, declared: "It is a treasure beyond price. . . . In this city and in this spot it is in the safest possible hands...
...Labor Party has urged the Government to set up a Ministry of Supply-an agency to conscript business for war just as the Army may conscript men. Last week such a Ministry was finally created. In wartime it will see that Government orders get precedence, that businesses get fair but limited profits. All England wondered whether Neville Chamberlain would give the Ministry to an aggressive man of action-Winston Churchill, for example. When the Prime Minister rose in the House of Commons and announced that the job would go to the 51-year-old Milquetoast Minister of Transport, Dr. Edward...
...work with Frank Brangwyn, has since incorporated that decorator's style with his own in some of the most splendiferous symbolic murals in the Western Hemisphere-one in the Los Angeles Public Library and one now being finished for the General Motors Building at the World's Fair...
...fine, springy day in 1850 a gentleman named James Liddy, of Watertown, N. Y., went to a county fair in his surrey. It was a lousy fair and Mr. Liddy curled himself up on the seat of his surrey and went to sleep. When he awoke he felt remarkably refreshed, and he was smitten with an idea. He went home and forthwith invented the first bedsprings known...
Today is a nice but cloudy day-nice to go to a county fair and sleep on a surrey seat. Tomorrow it will likely rain-a good day to stay home and commune with Mr. Liddy's invention...