Word: walkerism
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...managed the campaign of Edward Madigan for the job of House Republican whip against an upstart rival named Newt Gingrich. Gingrich won by just two votes. Five years later, after the Republicans took over Congress, DeLay brazenly challenged and easily defeated Gingrich's handpicked candidate and best friend, Bob Walker, for the position he now holds. DeLay defended the Speaker during Gingrich's ethics investigation and helped him narrowly win re-election to his post in January 1997. But just six months later, DeLay tried to overthrow Gingrich in a coup attempt that, when it failed, seemed sure...
...Walker's grooming products, she insisted, did not "straighten" hair--even then, a politically controversial process--but she also sold a "hot comb," which did in fact straighten kinky hair, consciously tapping into a racial aesthetic that favored Caucasian features over "African" physical characteristics. Such celebrities as Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson and Michael Jackson would become cases in point. Walker's products, aided by before-and-after ads that rivaled anything Madison Avenue would invent, made their way into virtually every black home...
...Walker moved her business to Indianapolis in 1910, created the Madam C.J. Walker Hair Culturists Union of America and tirelessly traveled the U.S. giving lectures and demonstrations. Walker attracted the notice of the race's elite, despite the dubious regard in which they held hairdressers. She disrupted Booker T. Washington's National Negro Business League Convention in 1912 by demanding to be heard. "Surely you are not going to shut the door in my face," Walker shouted to Washington, who had ignored her for three days. "I have been trying to tell you what I am doing...
...Walker became a central figure in black leadership and one of the first black philanthropists, donating funds to build a black YMCA in Indianapolis and restore Frederick Douglass's home in Washington, and helping lead the protest against lynching--she traveled to the White House with other leaders to present a petition to Woodrow Wilson. (He declined to see them.) In 1918 she moved into the neo-Palladian Villa Lewaro, an estate she built at Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y., which was designed by the first registered black architect and situated near the estates of John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould...
...century's turn, Dow died, Jones sold out, and in came the new owners: Jessie Waldron Barron, a prim Boston boardinghouse keeper; and her insatiable journalist husband, who persuaded her to put up the $2,500 down payment. Clarence Walker Barron, 5 ft. 5 in. and 300 lbs. in his prime, was a high-living, big-investing champion of unrestrained capitalism who improved the Journal's standards while ordering up stories promoting companies whose shares he owned...