Word: knighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Before a California Federation of Labor convention at Oakland (Knowland's home town), Knight boomed: "The intelligent, fair-minded men and women of the Republican Party in California are not going to abdicate and permit the Grand Old Party to become an antilabor party. No man with a reputation for belligerence either in international affairs or domestic affairs, no matter how high-principled he may be, is safe for executive office in the Federal Government today. And he is equally unsafe to be entrusted with the governorship of California...
...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...
...Time May Be Coming." Significantly, the issue on which Knowland chose to hit hardest was labor policy. Goodie Knight has announced that he would refuse to sign any right-to-work bill in deference to California's large and politically powerful labor forces, who mortally hate and fear the prospect of the open shop. Last week Knowland not only called for "a just and equitable right-to-work law" but went a strong step farther. Said he: "The time may soon be coming when Congress may have to apply the same antitrust laws to the big unions...
...California's cross-filing law, he would try for both the Republican and the Democratic nominations in next June's primaries. Last week, as he was only beginning his road work, Unannounced Candidate Knowland-in the judgment of both pollsters and pundits-was running ahead of Goodie Knight...