Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Genial, hook-nosed "Linc" Dickey got his first training in showmanship by promoting itinerant Chautauquas and William Jennings Bryan. In 1922 Cleveland hired him to manage its huge Public Hall, scene of last month's Republican Convention. So notable was his success that in 1928 Atlantic City lured him away with $25,000 per year to run its Auditorium. Five years later rich Manhattan got him for chief of its Convention & Visitors Bureau...
...Dancer Sally Rand was more responsible for the success of Chicago's Century of Progress (1933-34) than any other single individual. Stripped of all its cultural appeal, the Great Lakes Exposition will be put across, if at all, by the bare body of Toto Leverne as displayed five times a day to the 1,000 pop-eyed customers of the French Casino. A Scottish lass, born Trudeye Davison, Toto Leverne went to Northwestern University for two years, quit in 1934 to dance...
...combination of culture & carnival 1,000,000 tickets at 50? each have been sold in advance. Well aware that 26,000,000 people live within a 300-mile radius of Cleveland, and that only 40,000 a day are needed to make this Exposition a success, Promoter Dickey last week was in a thoroughly optimistic mood...
...expense. To save Greece's dwindling gold reserves he imposed new import restrictions amounting to some $7,000,000 which will mostly operate in Germany's favor. Not indeed since Athenians mulcted Sam Insull had they done such a thorough job. Much credit for the German success went to Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, who has just made a flying Balkan tour, booking orders for munitions against blocked marks (TIME, June...
...Museum and two great Italian works from Italy's Italico Brass. Among Clevelanders who lent Director Milliken 79 pictures in all were three members of the Hanna family and the estate of Cleveland's Tycoon John L. Severance. Director Milliken, expecting a 75% average, had a 98% success...