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...Grover Aloysius Whalen. And the fair as it stands today-a $157,000,000 extroversion of Mr. Whalen's fantastic extrovert personality-gives him fair claim to the title of greatest salesman alive today. Grover Whalen suggested the fair in 1935 and a civil engineer named Joseph Shadgen came through with a historical excuse-the 150th anniversary of Washington's inauguration; Shadgen also suggested the site-a foul ash dump in Corona, L. I. which New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses had long itched to clean up. The original scheme was a fair the size of the Century...
...management has had its troubles, but has ridden through them all. There was a nasty squabble with Engineer Shadgen. Given a $625-a-month berth at the fair, he was presently fired as incompetent. When he brought suit for $2,000,000 the fair settled with him for $45,000. Then there was the proposed Freedom Pavilion to display the works of pre-Nazi Germans and those exiled by Nazidom. This looked as though it might cause trouble and, according to an article in this week's Nation, was quietly squelched by its professed friends after Grover Whalen...
...through a curious meeting in the Fair's administration building. Absent was George A. McAneny, the Fair's first promoter who was demoted to chairman of the Fair corporation board to make way for President Whalen. Present was a tall, shy, greying civil engineer named Joseph F. Shadgen. By proxy Mr. McAneny had to admit that Engineer Shadgen was really the man who "originated" the Fair on its site in the Flushing, L. I. salt marshes. He it was who, after nine months of study, first went to Mr. McAneny through Edward F. ("Eddy") Roosevelt (a distant, cosmopolite...
Rather than let the case go to trial, Maestro Whalen last week settled with Engineer Shadgen for $45,000 cash, re-engaged him as a consultant for the Fair's duration...
...Engineer Shadgen, a fiftyish native of Luxemburg, has had his ups & downs in engineering, at one time making as high as $150,000 a year. He credits his daughter Jacqueline, now 16, with really having the Fair idea first. In 1934, when she learned that the U. S. would be 150 years old in 1939, she asked her father if anyone was planning to celebrate. When he said no, she said: "Why don't you do it, Daddy?" That got him started. He picked the Flushing marshes because he lived near them, in Jackson Heights. He does not consider...
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