Dapper Grover Whalen, president of the New York World's Fair scheduled to open on the Flushing Meadows April 30, 1939, stepped aboard the Normandie last week. He was bound for the International Bureau of Expositions in Paris to get his Fair officially recognized. The Bureau consists of 22 nations who got together in 1928, decided that there were too many international fairs, agreed to sanction only one a year. The U. S. is not a member of the Bureau and Mr. Whalen's visit at this time is only a matter of form, but the...
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