Word: walker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Doris Lee had her first one-man show in Washington. Last week she had her first Manhattan exhibit all to herself. The 20 pictures at the Walker Galleries did not include Thanksgiving...
Adopted. By James John ("Jimmy") Walker, 55, onetime (1925-32) Mayor of New York City; and Betty Compton Walker, 29, onetime musicomedienne; the two-month-old daughter of a 15-year-old unwed mother; from "The Cradle," famed Evanston, Ill. orphanage (TIME, May 20). Name: Mary Patricia Walker. Premature news of the adoption caused the Walkers to announce they had given up the adoption plan, return to Manhattan. Four days later they quietly went back to Evanston to take Mary Patricia away...
Armed with a fat $750,000 appropriation, the Communications Commission set out to find the answers. During the past year it had more than 250 accountants, lawyers and engineers in the field, ransacking files, reading letters, photostating documents, copying reports, questioning telephone officials. Commissioner Paul A. Walker, who is personally directing the investigation, accused A. T. & T. of lack of cooperation. President Walter Sherman Gifford said he was giving all the assistance he could, maintained, as he has from the start, that A. T. & T. had no skeletons to hide...
...human being, Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip is a large, lugubrious, burly man with a commanding voice and manner. These may be qualities of value in standing up to the truculent British generals, admirals and air marshals of the Committee of Imperial Defense. The Prime Minister not only appointed Sir Thomas his deputy last week but also raised him to full Cabinet rank as Britain's first Secretary of State for Coordination of Defense...
...Christopher Smith Reynolds, 3, went approximately $7,000,000. To Anne Cannon Reynolds, 5, the dead tobacco heir's other child by a previous marriage, went some $10,000,000. To Richard Joshua Reynolds, the dead man's brother, and to Mrs. Charles Babcock and Mrs. Henry Walker Bagley, his two sisters, went the $10,000,000 residue. Before any of it can be transferred, the U. S. will get some $8,500,000 inheritance...