Word: lohr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year were back in reduced numbers. Again the Fair tried to keep them as clean as possible. Again the promoters hoped to make them as racy as possible. Sally Rand had been taken up by the movies, and the Fair's general manager, Major Lenox Riley Lohr, had not encouraged any more fan dancing. But one carnival man was planning an act in which his girls used just a few roses. To see the nation's biggest show, 155,000 people clicked through the turnstiles the first day, 35,000 more than the first day last year...
When last week's nudity rumpus cast general suspicion on all the Fair's rowdy, stay-up-late activity, Major Lenox Riley Lohr, the hard-bitten onetime soldier whom the Brothers Dawes made the Fair's general manager (TIME, May 22), enacted a 1:30 curfew. On none of the three following nights was any patron of the hot spots evicted before 3 a. m.. The concessionaires complained that the only chance they had to make hay was while the stars shone. To them, President Rufus Cutler Dawes replied...
Added crisp Martha Steele McGrew of Tennessee, Major Lohr's able assistant and author of the curfew law. after an inspection of the Fair's night life: "After midnight about three-quarters of the Midway concessions had closed voluntarily. The chief objection to letting the others remain open indefinitely was the problem created by unescorted women who stay on the grounds late at night, too drunk to take proper care of themselves. We've had a terrible time keeping them off the trucks that are admitted to the grounds, to bring in supplies and collect refuse, after...
...Lohr: People won't be interested in a lot of dead...
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