Word: walker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic party in the city has of course been laboring under unusual hardships in the last half decade. It was tragic to have their popular leader Jimmy Walker quit the country under fire on the heels of the Seabury investigation of municipal vice and corruption in 192, and it was even harder to stomach the interference from Washington in the 1933 campaign, when an administration candidate, Joseph McKee split the ticket wide open and led to a Fusion victory. But to add insult to injury only last fall an enlightened electorate voted to adopt an entirely new charter, the final...
Married. Howard Carrington Kresge, son of chain-store Merchant Sebastian Spering Kresge (5-10-25? stores); to Anna May Walker, of Detroit...
Peace was finally concluded last week, amid typical, more-than-Oriental magnificence. In a gilded coach behind four arching white horses, guarded by 32 men in white uniforms, glistening breastplates, black thigh-boots and plumed helmets, Elaine Walker, President of Culver City's chamber of commerce, paraded down Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Stepping between crowd-banks to the theatre entrance, he was greeted by Hollywood's Olesen and California's burbling Governor Frank F. Merriam, ensconced behind a large box of fresh-mixed concrete. Announcing that Culver City no longer coveted her neighbor...
...Composed of Cabinet members and the heads of important bureaus, N. E. C.'s job was to co-ordinate all other New Deal agencies, let the public know what they were up to. Headed by two of the President's most trusted aides, first by Frank C. Walker, then by Donald Richberg, it produced two impressive blossoms: a press intelligence service, to let Federal organizations know what U. S. newssheets were saying about them, and the United States Manual, to enable newsgatherers and others to find out what the hugely expanded roster of Government agencies were...
...next year led in forming the International Lifeboat Racing Association, Inc. Last week the eleventh annual race, off Bay Ridge shore, brought out a high-spirited and representative maritime crowd,"including snipping officials. Organizer Joseph Curran of the National Maritime Union. New York's onetime Mayor James J. Walker and wife. New York's onetime Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney. who acted as referee, and Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the U. S. Maritime Commission...