Word: walker
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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What put these Dry sessions on the front pages of the public prints was not their routine doings but the sudden appearance of Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition. She had come to defend her new occupation as counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 20). Because of her connection with this firm selling a grape juice concentrate easily convertible into wine, Drys have eyed Mrs. Willebrandt as a backslider in their Cause. After first refusing to hear her, the Temperance Council finally cracked open its doors...
Married. James Hazen Hyde, onetime (1899-1905) vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Society, son of the late Henry Baldwin Hyde, Equitable's founder and onetime president; and Countess Ella Matuschka (nee Walker) of Detroit; in Varsailles, France. Witnesses: Andre Tardieu, onetime (see p. 17) Prime Minister of France, President Jean de Castel-lane of the Paris Municipal Council, .Counselor Norman Armour of the U. S. Embassy...
...Manhattan's City Hall, Mayor James John Walker presented a very heavy gold cup to Sir Thomas Lipton. It was the cup for which U. S. people who admire Sir Thomas had been sending in money-a consolation cup to show they thought him a good loser. Sir Thomas was feeling too badly to read all of his speech but got through some of it. ". . . After one of my former attempts to lift the cup I received a letter from a lady sympathizer inquiring whether it was true that the Americans had put something in the water to prevent...
...find Miss Walker playing the ingenne is a surprise, but she does the conventional part about as well as anyone could. James Patterson, her lover, without much previous experience, is good enough for two acts, but he falters in the finale when he gets his first real chance. Richard Hale plays the bad man with extreme unction. There is a chorus that hums throughout the cornfields and cheers the cowboys at their crap game. They are hard to explain, but they sing well enough and are pleasant to watch when the interest sags...
...Director of the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute. Dr. Bigelow is taking to Wood's Hole with him in June, the entire Harvard staff, consisting of Columbus O'D. Iselin '26, recently elected Curator of Oceanography, who is to be master of the vessel, and Miss Virginia B. Walker, who is to be Secretary of the Institute...