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Knowland has reason to believe that he is on the right track. In liberal, freewheeling California, where Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight boasts heavy labor support, Big Bill has bluntly been running for the gubernatorial nomination on a right-to-work platform as well as a seven-point scheme for tightening of federal labor laws. Although he plans no federal right-to-work statute, Knowland's federal proposals are aimed at other specifics, e.g., restrictions on uses of union funds, guarantee of a secret ballot in union elections and strike votes...
...terms," but when asked if he might still be a presidential candidate in 1960, he replied: "No one has a crystal ball for 1960-or 1964." Vice President Richard Nixon's supporters immediately prepared to throw support to Knowland in his fight for the G.O.P. nomination against Governor Goodwin J. Knight, and the influential, conservative Los Angeles Times, already committed to Nixon for President in 1960, hinted that it liked Bill Knowland for governor...
...invigorating supersonic flight, whizzed along over the Southern California desert at more than 1,000 m.p.h. to break the sound barrier, smilingly received a certificate of membership in the exclusive "Mach Buster's Club." Scheduled for this week: a Sacramento press conference at which every Californian from Governor Goodwin Knight to MGM's Leo the Lion expects him to announce his candidacy for governor...
...weeks California's Governor Goodwin Knight watched in fuming silence while U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland rushed around the state running hard for governor without even declaring for the job (TIME, Sept. 16). This week Goodie Knight broke his silence and fired point-blank at Knowland on the issue of labor policy...
...reminder that Senate Minority Leader Knowland had administered the vice-presidential oath to California's own Dick Nixon, and was a confidant of the President's. But Knowland's sharpest comments were saved for local issues on which he ' could bang away at Goodwin Knight, e.g. California's critical water shortage, the high state budget. He did not attack Knight by name, but he said pointedly that California needed "executive leadership," not "an on-again, off-again Finnegan approach...