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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original Dock Street Theatre, sold in 1749, was followed by two successors, both destroyed by fire in the next 50 years. On the site in 1806 was built Charleston's famous Planters' Hotel, where dusty Southern palates cooled to prime Planters' Punches. Remodeled in 1835, the hulk of it stood in dejected shabbiness 100 years later, when the FERA, on the prowl for projects, adopted the idea of Mrs. Burnet R. Maybank, wife of Charleston's mayor, for salvaging the old hotel and reconstructing the historic theatre at the same time...
...Corporation's 900-odd employes work and where dressy President Whalen holds forth in a copper-lined board room. Like the Chicago A Century of Progress, the Administration Building is showily modern, as apparently will be most of some 350 other projected buildings which eventually will jam the site's 1,200 acres. Most of the New York Fair's space has already been let and last week Japan contracted to rent 10,000 sq. ft., Russia 110,000 and Hungary 36,000. Virtually all nations are expected. Attendance is estimated at 40,000,000 first year...
...nonstock corporation whose officers get no remuneration. New York City is crashing through with about $25,000,000, New York State with $10,000,000, but this is not a subsidy, for a large part of the money is being spent in basic improvements and reclamation of the Fair site which will be a park when the Fair is ended. The U. S. Government has authorized expenditure c. $3,000,000 and the Fair Corporation itself plans to spend about $47,000,000, part financed by Fair revenues, the rest by a $27,800,000 issue of 4% debentures which...
...problem given the contestants was the designing of a bus terminal and commercial building upon a given site in Providence...
...Anton J. Cermak swept clownish Republican Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson out of City Hall. Membership dropped from 2,300 in 1930 to less than 1,000 in 1935. That year, owing $215,000 in back taxes and penalties and $86,666 back rent on its site to the estate of Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, the Hamilton filed a petition to reorganize under Section 77B of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Last year Illinois' onetime Attorney General Oscar Carlstrom. the club's 43rd president, desperately got its members' consent to delete...