Word: whalen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Lisbon, Portugal, World's Fairer Grover Whalen embarked for the U. S. after a three-month European tour to shore up his next year's show with foreign expositionists. Said Salesman Whalen: "My visit was satisfactory. I believe I can say all countries I visited will reopen their pavilions at the World's Fair, as well as Poland and Czecho-Slovakia...
...British journals which are read in France; but they cannot be transmitted to any neutral country. Telegrams and cables, no matter where they originate, are censored. A suspicious wire from Amsterdam to the Paris office of the New York Times had its first three lines deleted. They read: "Grover Whalen arrived at The Hague from Brussels and says he is satisfied with the results of his talks in Switzerland, France and Rome...
Toothy, swagger-minded Grover Whalen, president of New York's World's Fair, in Europe on a busman's holiday, attended the Swiss National Exposition...
...that reason the impeccable Grover Aloysius Whalen last week tiptoed around the edges of the battlegrounds of Europe, drumming up trade for the 1940 edition of his World of Tomorrow. From Rome this sentimental journeyman reported: "Government officials are favorably inclined." Elsewhere, he intimated, nations had received him most cordially. But so far he had no signatures on his pocketful of dotted lines. That was serious. For if a majority of this year's 58 foreign exhibitors fail to renew their leases, the 1940 Fair will have to cope with a lot of blank spots where the handsome foreign...
...industry worth a small mint, but it has shown nightclub owners and theatre operators that life is something besides a bowl of red ink. The San Francisco Fair wasn't doing too well until Benny Goodman and cohorts arrived on the scene. And we doubt very much that Mr. Whalen has been booking swing bands for the New York Fair because he likes their brand of "jump" music...