Word: knighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regards newspaper chains, the survey yielded the following: the Block chain came off well; the Scripps-Howard rather poorly; the Knight, Pulliam and McCormick badly; the Cowles very badly; and the Hearst worst...
...when he died last week at 87, James Cox did not land on many front pages. His was "not a familiar name to the modern generation," explained Fellow Publisher John S. Knight in a warmly felt eulogy, "[but] he was one of the truly great men of the first half of this century...
Nevertheless, in state and national politics the Times carries a lot of Republican weight at nomination time. It has been a strong backer in the past of such Republican sons as Governor Goodwin Knight, Senator Bill Knowland and Vice President Richard Nixon, and they well know that it can be a candidate's valued friend in an area that encompasses two-thirds of the statewide vote. For example, in the major fight that is shaping up between Bill Knowland and Dick Nixon for the 1960 presidential nomination, Norman Chandler's quiet word on 1960 may come...
...kingship. His downfall is more the result of the jealousies and frustrations of others; less the effect of his own weakness. Unlike Marlowe's Gaveston, Treece's favorite is not a plotter against the king--his dupe--striving to amuse him in order to divert him. Rather, the French knight is Edward's honest confidant, fighting for his good and ready...
...Angeles indictment on counts of criminal libel, distributing lewd and obscene material and disseminating illegal information about abortions and male rejuvenation, walked into the Manhattan D.A.'s office one day last week and voluntarily surrendered. But it was only a technical surrender. As California's Governor Goodwin Knight signed extradition papers for the lot and fired them off to New York, Harrison & Co. said they would oppose extradition, retorted with a $2,047,125 suit against California's Attorney General Edmund G. Brown and his assistant. The charge: censorship and suppression of 325,000 copies...