Word: walker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York proclaimed a technical "emergency" in the matter of his wages, had his Board of Estimate raise him from $25,000 to $40,000 per annum, thus becoming the highest-paid public official in the land excepting the U. S. President ($75,000). Defending the idea, said he: "I don't need the money. If it became a sporting proposition, I'd bet on the turn of a coin the amount of the raise...
...tingling Celtic sense of the dramatic has New York's Mayor James John Walker. One midnight last week, he made the unprecedented announcement that he would act as a special catastrophe investigator...
...Mayor Walker spoke darkly of bribery of fire inspectors...
...best humor President Hoover watched the ridicule pile mountain high. Then he made a speech which, by custom, was not reported. Other speakers: New York's Mayor James John Walker, Wisconsin's Senator Robert Marion La Follette...
...Manhattan, President-elect Rubio was lunched by Morgan-Partner Thomas W. Lament and United Pressman Karl A. Bickel, conferred with Mayor Walker, Police Commissioner Whalen...