Word: lohr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...visible last week was six years' work that made the show possible. In 1927 Fair President Rufus Cutler Dawes appointed Chauncey McCormick chairman of the committee on art exhibits. The Fair's general manager, Maj. Lenox Riley Lohr, wanted to know what Chicagoans wanted to see. A questionnaire showed they wanted to see September Morn and Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair. Mr. McCormick, remembering the art shambles at Chicago's 1893 Fair where every exhibitor was given space to hang what he liked, countered with the names of Rembrandt, Gauguin, da Vinci...
...Lohr: People won't be interested in a lot of dead...
...Lohr...
...Fair have been two sharply divided cliques-one military, the other civilian. For general manager, Brother Charles picked Lenox R. Lohr, a onetime Major of Engineers who served with him in France. After Major Lohr came many another Army officer, until submerged civilian workers chafed under ' Army brusqueness and red tape. Brother Rufus has kept them all in harness and pulling forward so well that the Century of Progress may be one of those rare fairs that is really ready to open on the day advertised...