Years later, Yerger said that Walker's decision to relinquish his House seat after one term for the vagaries of a Senate race against Eastland was " very devastating " to the growth of the Mississippi GOP.

Because of the remarkable coincidence of three cases of auto-immune disease in one household, the Secret Service tested the water in the White House, at Camp David, at the Vice President's residence, and at Walker's Point ( Bush's home in Maine ) for lithium and iodine, two substances " known to cause thyroid problems ".

Commenting on the same court decision, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich issued a statement in opposition to same-sex marriage, which read, in part, as follows: " Judge Walker's ruling overturning Prop 8 is an outrageous disrespect for our Constitution and for the majority of people of the United States who believe marriage is the union of husband and wife ... Congress now has the responsibility to act immediately to reaffirm marriage as a union of one man and one woman as our national policy.

Then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi expressed her support for Judge Walker's decision: " I am extremely encouraged by the ruling today, which found that Proposition 8 violated both the due process and equal protection clauses of the U. S. Constitution.

Years later, Wirt Yerger, the chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party at the time, said that Walker's decision to relinquish his House seat after one term for the vagaries of a Senate race against Eastland was " very devastating " to the growth of the state GOP.

In 1968, Walker challenged G. V. " Sonny " Montgomery of Meridian in a bid to return to Walker's former House seat, but lost by 30-70 percent.

Years later, Yerger said that Walker's decision to relinquish his House seat after one term for the vagaries of a Senate race was " very devastating " to the growth of the Mississippi GOP.

The Democrat G. V. " Sonny " Montgomery reclaimed Walker's House seat and held it for thirty years.

Walker's impact on SMU and football in the Dallas area led to the Cotton Bowl being referred to as " The House That Doak Built.

He was mayor from 1900 to 1902, and the Vice-Principal's house on campus became affectionately known as ' Walker's House '.

He was elected governor in 2002, the first Democrat to win the office since Daniel Walker's victory 30 years earlier.

Walker's victory is considered to have been heavily influenced by the campaign of Barry Goldwater, who carried Mississippi in the 1964 presidential election with an unheard-of 87 percent of the vote.

On Whit Monday, 1962, at the Crystal Palace Hawkins drove Ian Walker's Lotus-Ford to victory in the up to 1, 150 c. c.

Walker's song " In The Misty Moonlight " was a hit for both Jerry Wallace ( 1964 ) and Dean Martin ( 1967 ).

" Walker's collection was enormously popular, selling about 600, 000 copies all over the U. S. when the total population was just over 20 million.

A cultivar ' Walker's Low ' was named perennial of the year for 2007 by the Perennial Plant Association.

The question of who would take over the Rovers Return after Annie Walker's 1983 exit was answered in 1985 when Bet Lynch ( who also mirrored the vulnerability and strength of Elsie Tanner ) was installed as landlady.

The Menke / Morgan punch was beginning to come alive, and the team was responding to Walker's management style.

Although his parents did not officially divorce until 1999, their marriage was in serious trouble throughout Walker's adolescence ; his father would often leave their Marin residence for extended periods to live in San Francisco with a male lover.

Following a nationwide competition with a prize of £ 50 ( 2010 :$ 3, 527 ) to find a name for the new spread, the name " Vegemite " was selected out of a hat by Fred Walker's daughter, Sheilah.

Walker was the son of Irish-born William Walker, a Democratic assemblyman and alderman from Greenwich Village, belying certain accounts of Walker's childhood that stated he grew up in poverty.

However, Walker's term was also known for the proliferation of speakeasies during the Prohibition era.

A romanticized version of Walker's tenure as mayor was presented in the 1957 film Beau James, starring Bob Hope.

Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the Saints, and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the summer of 1992.

Walker's Eidouranion was the heart of his public lectures or theatrical presentations.

Going in shortly after midnight, the attack on Pozières was a success, largely thanks to Walker's insistence on careful preparation and an overwhelming supporting bombardment.

The town housed Indian agents and was a stage stop ( Walker's Station ) for the Butterfield Overland Mail route.

" It was later remarked that Walker's untimely and irrelevant oration was not just for Buncombe — it " was Buncombe.

At the junction of the High Street and Parchmore Road, on a site previously called Walker's Green, stands the Clocktower, which was built in 1900, financed partly by public subscription.

Ely & Walker's four-story factory ( now the Fourth Street Mall ) was the first.

McMinn County was organized at Walker's house that same year.

In 2009, during Charles L. Walker's term, the Town was named by Bloomberg Business Magazine as the Most Affordable Suburb in Tennessee.

In 1977, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker's medal was restored, and other reviews began.

" Amazing Grace ", with the words written by Newton and joined with " New Britain ", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1847.

Fred Walker's company first created and sold Vegemite in 1922.

In the decisive seventh game of that series, Slaughter, running with the pitch, made a famous " Mad Dash " for home from first base on Harry Walker's hit in the eighth inning, scoring the winning run after a delayed relay throw by the Red Sox ' Johnny Pesky.

Scott Walker's first three solo albums, titled Scott, Scott 2, and Scott 3, each contain three of the Blau / Shuman translations.

The contest to name the new character Gizmo first appeared in this May 6, 2002 strip when Gen. Halftrack walks into Mort Walker's studio demanding a new character to help him with computer related stuff.

His first successes as reviewer were in 1835-1836 by articles on " Walker's Original " and on " Gastronomy.

Nancy Walker's return to the series, plus Valerie Harper's astounding weight loss, brought back some of the lost audience members from the previous year, but " Rhoda " never regained the popularity it had achieved during its first two seasons on television.

Previously to this date, Walker's sales-book contains an account of no fewer than 250 sales of friction matches, the first entry bearing the date 7 April 1827.

Walker's report led to the design being abandoned for the second time, and Walker himself was appointed to design and build a bridge of nine cast-iron arches with stone piers, the first iron bridge to be built across the Thames.

Walker's first ambassadorial appointment, Colonel Parker H. French, was refused recognition.

The 1985 Generals finished 11-7 behind Walker's pro football-record 2, 411 rushing yards but lost again to the Stars ( transplanted to Baltimore ) in the first round of the playoffs, 20-17.

Walker's career season came in 1997, when he hit. 366 with 49 home runs, 130 RBI, 33 stolen bases, and 409 total bases, en route to becoming the first Canadian player to win the MVP Award.

1942-Franz Marc, Die grossen blauen Pferde ( The Large Blue Horses ) ( 1911 ) is the Walker's first acquisition of Modern Art.

Walker's first appearance as Ida Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, 1970.

The Searchers and Paul and Barry Ryan each had a minor UK Chart hit with The Hollies song " Have You Ever Loved Somebody " in 1967 – while Graham Nash co-wrote John Walker's first solo hit " Annabella " that year – and later in 1968, Nash took a guest vocal on The Scaffold's UK Chart topper, " Lily the Pink " ( which referenced The Hollies 1968 hit " Jennifer Eccles ").

While according to Walker's New York Times obituary, " she said herself two years ago 1917 that she was not yet a millionaire, but hoped to be some time ," the Guinness Book of Records cites Walker as the first woman to become a millionaire by her own achievements.

Greenall's Padgate St Oswald's first team play at Tetley Walker's club, Long Lane, Warrington.

Jameson was not at his best in the lecture theatre however, and, for the first half of his career, he grappled with his predecessor John Walker's perverse " Neptunian " geological theories.

More recently, Olli Jokinen also bested Walker's wait, finally playing in his first playoff game in 2009 after 799 career regular season games.

She has also appeared in Dad's Army ( first as Edith Parrish, and later as Private Walker's girlfriend Shirley ), Up Pompeii!

"--- calling Herschel Walker's first touchdown run against the Tennessee Volunteers in 1980.

Walker's appointment in 1970 as Secretary of State for the Environment was notable in that he became the world's first environment minister.

Walker's first foray into broadcasting was co-presenting two shows on the University of Sheffield's Sure FM student radio station-the midweek sports-themed evening show and ' Dan & Edd In The Afternoon ', for which he and co-presenter Ed Hoyland were nominated for a BBC Radio One Student Radio award.