Word: walker
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...doctor not to preach his scheduled sermon. He asked Norman Thomas, Socialist Congressional candidate and scandal-flayer, to speak for him. After Speaker Thomas had finished describing the city's condition, Rabbi Wise could contain himself no longer. He rose up and castigated Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker's regime in these terms: "I charge the men of large affairs in New York with lack of concern touching the welfare of their city. New York has no political, let alone moral, leadership. . . . What has the Mayor of New York done to uncover wrong or to enthrone right...
...press gloated. The tabloid New York Daily News screamed: MABEL WINS WINK FROM U. S. ON WINE! Explanation: Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition and good friend of Director Woodcock, is counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. Fruit Industries Inc. is an affiliate of the California Grape Control Board whose members were, at the moment when Director Woodcock spoke, harvesting a bumper grape crop of 870,000 tons, representing an investment of some $300,000,000. Of this crop 450,000 tons, enough to make 67,000,000 gal. of juice, were wine grapes...
...jury awarded first prize ($1,500) to Henri Matisse. This year it was Matisse's turn to award the prize. He gave it to Pablo Ruiz Picasso's calm masterly portrait of Mme Picasso. The other judges: Glyn Philpot of Britain; Karl Sterrer, Austria; Bernard Karfiol, Horatio Walker, Ross Moffett, U. S., made no objection. Most critics' lists of the ten greatest living painters contain both Picasso and Ma-tisse...
Chairman of General Telephone & Electric's executive committee will be Elisha Walker, Chairman of Transamerica's executive committee. Last week he expounded the reasons that make this deal logical, reasons realized by Ivar Kreuger when he bought into Ericcson Telephone, a similar deal. Said Mr. Walker somewhat verbosely: "It deserves to be noted that in an era distinguished not infrequently by industrial overproduction, there has been no excess of production by manufacturing plants producing the requirements of telephonic communications systems overseas. . . . We may anticipate, I believe, a continuing development in telephonic communications overseas...
...Choate Copasso, l.g. r.g., Nazro, Lawrence Batchelder, Stroud, c. c., Lockwood, Crane Afllnto, Pelton r.g. l.g., Burband, DeNibo Blakeslee, Hapgood, r.f. l. t., Kopans Scheinfain, r.e. l.e., White, Crocker, Sawyer Buonanno, q.b. q.b., Whitney, Rabinowifa, Gibson Mather, l.h.b. r.h.b., Peter, Hurlburt, Cheek Crissey, Allen, r.h.b. l.h.b., Flanders, McCloes Clark Walker, Libby, f.b. f.b.,Pecogolide...