I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

Hilton. "


Military service
Walker served as a second lieutenant of the Camouflage Section Corps of Engineers A. F.

Walker is best known for his designs for the Barclay-Vesey Telephone Building (1922–26) and the Irving Trust Building (1928–31). Ralph Thomas Walker FAIA (1889–1973) was an American architect president of the American Institute of Architects and partner of the firm McKenzie Voorhees Gmelin; and its successor firms Voorhees Gmelin & Walker Voorhees Walker Foley & Smith; Voorhees Walker Smith & Smith; and Voorhees Walker Smith Smith & Haines.