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From left to right, José Gonzalez, Grover Whalen, and Dennis Nolan looking over plans for the Puerto Rico pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair.
Grover Whalen was a prominent politician, businessman, and public relations guru in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. His first major political assignment was as chief of police, where he was known to be a ruthless enforcer of current prohibition laws. He is known to have declared at this time, "There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick."

He was later appointed by Fiorello La Guardia as New York's official greeter, succeeding William Francis Deegan, and became a public celebrity easily recognized by his exquisitely groomed moustache and carnation boutonniere. In this capacity, in which he served until the early 1950s, he officially welcomed everyone from Charles Lindbergh to Admiral Richard Byrd to Douglas MacArthur to New York and became master of the ticker tape parade.

In 1935 he became president of the New York World Fair Corporation and put a familiar face on the 1939 New York World's Fair. In this capacity he graced the cover of Time Magazine on May 1, 1939.

He died in April 1962.

He is mentioned in the Groucho Marx song, Lydia the Tattooed Lady, the Cole Porter song Let's Fly Away, as well as in the 1933 film The Prizefighter and the Lady starring Myrna Loy and Max Baer.


A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics.
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Police are agents or agencies empowered to enforce the law and to effect public and social order through the legitimate use of force. The term is most commonly associated with police departments of a state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a
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Prohibition of alcohol, often shortened to the term prohibition, also known as Dry Law, refers to a sumptuary law in a given jurisdiction which prohibits alcohol.
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club, cudgel, baton, truncheon, night stick, or bludgeon is among the simplest of all weapons. A club is essentially a staff, crock or stick, usually made of wood, and wielded as a weapon.
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Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (born Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia; December 11, 1882 – September 20, 1947) (often spelled La Guardia [la 'gwardja]) was the Republican Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945.
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William Francis Deegan (1882–1932) was an architect, Major in the Army Corps of Engineers, and Democratic political leader in New York City.

He was educated at Cooper Union, and served in the US Army during World War I supervising the construction of military bases in
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A boutonnière is a flower or floral decoration worn by men. It is typically a single flower or bud. Traditionally, a boutonnière was worn pushed through the buttonhole of a jacket, but in modern times is often pinned onto a jacket lapel.
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (4 February 1902 – 26 August 1974), known as "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle," was an American pilot famous for the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic, from Roosevelt Field, Long Island to Paris in 1927 in the "Spirit of St. Louis.
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The name Richard Byrd may refer to:
  • Richard C. Byrd (1805–1854), an American politician
  • Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888–1957), admiral, polar explorer, aviator
  • Richard Leslie Byrd (1892–?), an American Olympic athlete

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Douglas MacArthur[1] GCB, Order of the Rising Sun (January 26 1880 – April 5 1964), was an American general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and later played a prominent role in the Pacific
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ticker-tape parade is a parade event, held in a downtown urban setting, allowing the jettison of large amounts of shredded paper products from nearby office buildings onto the parade route, creating a triumphal effect by the snowstorm-like flurry.
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1939-40 New York World's Fair, located on the current site of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (also the location of the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair), was one of the largest world's fairs of all time.
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Time (whose trademark is capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A European edition (Time Europe, formerly known as Time Atlantic) is published from London.
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Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), was an American comedian and film star. He is famed as a master of wit. He made 15 feature films with his siblings, the Marx Brothers as well as a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio
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"Lydia the Tattooed Lady", which became one of Groucho Marx's signature tunes, was written by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, and first appeared in the movie At the Circus (1939). The lyrics make many contemporary references to topical personalities such as Grover Whalen.
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Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate (1948) (based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew), Fifty Million Frenchmen
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The Prizefighter and the Lady is a 1933 black-and-white MGM crime romance comedy starring Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey, and Walter Huston.

Directed by W.S.
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Myrna Loy

from the trailer for
Libeled Lady (1936)
Birth name Myrna Adele Williams
Born July 2 1905(1905--)
Radersburg, Montana, U.S.
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Max Baer

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Real name Maximilian Adelbert Baer
Nickname Livermore Larupper
Rated at Heavyweight
Nationality American
Birth date January 11 1909(1909--)
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