Word: knighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With publication of the $71.8 billion budget, Knight's mounting distrust of Eisenhower's fiscal philosophy hardened and deepened. He started lashing out at foreign-policy "fumbling," at the "incredible" Secretary of State, the weakening of the Western alliance; in his concern with Government costs he moved inevitably closer to isolationism...
Frills & Boondoggles. Knight's news columns quickly reflected the new line. In March Washington Bureau Chief Ed Lahey (TIME, Dec. 19, 1955) reported: "The Eisenhower 'father image' is getting a little flaky around the edges. Quite a number of good 'internationalists' in the Senate treated his Middle East message as though it were less than divine revelation." Urged on by Daily News Editor Basil Walters, Knightmen waded through the budget and burst through with derisive headlines...
Along with horror stories on boondoggle items such as "the $300,000 that the Army spends to finance Sunday morning recreation for civilian members of private rifle clubs," the Knight papers have run two-column pep talks urging readers to protest to their Congressmen, helped them out with maps of congressional districts and names of Representatives...
...Taxes. By last week the down-with-taxes drive had all but taken over Knight's news columns. In one issue of the News the Page One headline trumpeted Ike's defense of the budget, while the "second front page"-Knight's gambit to inveigle readers as far as page 3-devoted a banner head and five columns to tax stories, including tips on evasion of state taxes by Columnist Jack Mabley and a dispatch from London, where Editor Walters, on tour, was busily exposing Lord Beveridge and Britain's womb-to-tomb social-security system...
Chicago Ikemen who have never taken the Tribune's anti-Eisenhower outbursts seriously are quick to accuse Knight of using criticism of the President to sell newspapers. Retorts Knight: "I don't sit down and say something because I think it is good for my newspapers. I don't fail to say something because I think it would be bad for my newspapers." Knight's rightward march is essentially the reaction of a cost-conscious businessman. But the hundreds of letters from worried readers that are pouring into his newspapers' and congressional offices each week...