Word: walker
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza. A onetime New York State Senator (at 22, the youngest in the Legislature's history), an oldtime crony of James J. Walker, unsuccessful candidate (although Father Coughlin backed him) for U. S. Representative in 1936, Hastings reportedly sought concessions for West Coast fishing, railroads, a trans-Isthmus pipeline. Mexican politicos thought him a U. S. Senator...
Captain of the South squad is William E. Fuller, Jr., whose contingent, consisting of Grays, Weld, Wigglesworth, and Farlow leads the league with 18 points. One marker behind is North, headed by Charles L. Eberhardt and made up of Lionel, Mower, Walker, Holworthy, Stoughton, Thayer, and Commuters. George A. Hibbard's West team, in third with ten points, includes Mathews, Straus, Massachusetts, Hollis, and Dudley...
...overage destroyers to help her through. His authority to make the deal, in which the U. S. received in return bases in the Atlantic, had been bolstered by an opinion of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson. Last week, in the party aboard the Potomac, besides Postmaster General Frank C. Walker and Mrs. Walker, Harry Hopkins and Marguerite Le Hand, was Mr. Jackson...
Just as the Hollywood Marines were about to board the train, a swarm of process servers descended with writs for 15 of the men. Major Van Dyke exploded, declared he would turn the whole matter over to his attorney, Mabel Walker Willebrandt...
...were safer, but not much. The big wind hit Chicago at 11:01 a.m. In two hours there were 600 emergency calls to the fire department. Chimneys went down, a water tank plunged through a roof, a cornice dropped to the street, killing a Negro, the ten-story Hiram Walker Whiskey sign on the corner of Randolph Street and the Outer Drive, one of the biggest electric signs in the world, crashed in a mass of twisted steel and broken light bulbs. On the Great Lakes the 4,220-ton freighter William B. Dacock, ice-covered, was driven...