Word: walker
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...daughter of Mrs. Charles Beatty Alexander. He served with some eclat as Counselor of the U. S. Embassy in Paris and Madrid. In 1927, as Charge d'Affaires in Paris, he made news by setting detectives to watch over New York's playful Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. No one supposed that Diplomatist Whitehouse was overjoyed by his transfer year ago from Madrid to Guatemala (TIME, Nov. 18, 1929). And last week, even as Ambassador Edwin Vernon Morgan was off in Paris when the Brazilian revolution broke, Minister Whitehouse was not in Guatemala but vacationing in Florida. Chagrined...
Elected. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Manhattan lawyer; to be commodore of the New York Yacht Club, succeeding Vincent Astor. Other officers: Junius Spencer Morgan Jr., vice commodore: William Adams Walker Stewart, rear commodore. Mr. Aldrich was head of the syndicate which owned the Enterprise, winner of America...
More than one potent California banker bridled angrily, sure that he was the "certain competitor" accused by Mr. Giannini. But well-informed observers paid little heed. Mr. Giannini, 60 and retired, is no longer official spokesman for Transamerica, having been succeeded a year ago by astute Elisha Walker of New York. And while it is true that there has been a large professional short interest in Transamerica stock, Wall Street has not been conscious of any great golden California bear in its menagerie. Embarrassing as it might have been for Transamerica's active management, the Giannini outburst - made...
...hours. And that's just the beginning of what's going to happen." Presidents bounced by the Bilboard of Trustees (composed of two dentists, three lawyers, a physician, a bank cashier, controlling all but State Teachers College) were Chancellor Alfred E. Hume of the University, Buz M. Walker of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Nellie Kiern of the Women's College.* New heads appointed were Chancellor Joseph Neely Powers, realtor (dismissed from same office in 1924); Hugh Critz, public relations counsel for Mississippi Power & Light Co.; Robert E. L. Sutherland, one-time president of Hinds Junior College...
...York Times; when he spoke on Zionism over the radio, when he went to the Metropolitan Opera House to hear Maria Jeritza sing Carmen; when he was escorted to City Hall by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler to shake hands with wisecracking little Mayor Walker...