Word: walker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Natty, wisecracking little James John ("Jimmie") Walker, 58, who as playboy mayor of New York City overlooked few bets, visited Mayor LaGuardia's breezy summer headquarters overlooking the World's Fairgrounds, grinned: "Well, well . . . . It's one bet I overlooked...
...chairman of the turbulent Federal Communications Commission. McNinch's assignment was a clean-up job supposed to last about three months. Under Cleaner-Upper McNinch, FCC has been more turbulent than ever. FCC Commissioners were at odds on its investigations into superpower and radio rates, practically disavowed Commissioner Walker's drastic 1,100 page report on American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Capping the thunder-headed cumulus was Chairman McNinch's unrelenting war on two fellow-Commissioners, publicity-hunting George Henry Payne and the Navy's Commander Tunis Augustus MacDonough Craven, the Commission's only technical...
Died. Lapsley Greene Walker, 85, longtime editor of the famed Ochs-founded Chattanooga Times (1903-38), who crusaded against the Ku Klux Klan, for Repeal; in Chattanooga, Tenn...
...frontier was far more tolerant of Bret Harte, according to Author Walker's records, than Harte ever admitted. A slender, curly-haired, sickly New York boy, who had read Shakespeare at six, Bret (whose friends sometimes called him Fanny) was a self-conscious literary man, who prospected in patent-leather shoes, drove a stagecoach only long enough to get his literary stake. He wrote his frontier successes when he had long been sitting comfortably behind a desk. Far from being unappreciated, when the Atlantic Monthly offered him $10,000 a year, the frontier went the limit to hold...
When Ambrose Bierce landed in San Francisco in 1866, a tall, blue-eyed ex-Civil War officer, he showed few signs of the savage misanthropy which marked his later work. According to Author Walker's researches, Bitter Bierce's misanthropy began two years after his arrival, when he became Town Crier for the satirical News Letter. Author Walker thinks Bierce enjoyed himself almost as much as did his readers. At any rate he was never sued for libel, shot at, even taken a poke at, in a country where editors' duels were commonplace. Bierce wrote the first...