Word: knighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Intelligent Conservatism." Bald, hawk-faced Jack Knight, 62, is one of the most influential publishers in the U.S. A shrewd, cost-conscious businessman, he has long articulated a middle-of-the-road political philosophy which mirrors a broad cross section of business thinking; he calls it "intelligent conservatism." While his slick, tricked-up papers seem often to reflect the auditor more than the editor in Knight's nature, they are closely identified with their communities and powerful in local and national politics. (In Illinois politicians say that an endorsement by the Daily News is an automatic guarantee...
Shuttling between his 8-ft. desk in the Daily News publisher's office, and the 10-ft.-by-10-ft. cubicle where he retires to write his "Editor's Notebook," Knight is in closer touch with reality than most publishers, and has often irritated his fellow businessmen. He backed Wendell Willkie, mistrusted Tom Dewey, shied away from Herbert Hoover in 1932 because he felt that Hoover "knew very little about the human equation...
...Knight swung his weight behind F.D.R. six months before Pearl Harbor, supported the Marshall Plan "with misgivings." A Taft supporter when he visited Ike in May 1952, Knight sensed immediately that Eisenhower "had a fresher and more modern approach." The publisher's vigorous support of Eisenhower earned him the President's "admiration and warm regard" -the phrase Ike wrote on the signed photograph that still faces Jack Knight's desk...
Mounting Distrust. The break has been swift and thorough. Only a year ago last January the Knight papers ran a glowing verdict by Jack Knight himself on Ike's first term. Wrote he: "The political phenomenon of our times is the almost childlike faith of the people in Eisenhower. One seldom hears a businessman teeing off on Ike for doing the very things that caused him to cuss out Roosevelt and Truman as 'Socialists.' The answer must be that our businessmen have changed with the times in terms of social attitudes and are glad the program...
Publisher Knight's first stirrings of distrust became evident last summer, when he warned of a new burst of inflation. His papers made their first direct attack on the President last January over one of the purely professional issues-the way advance news of the Eisenhower Doctrine was leaked to a few papers-that prompted some of the rare harsh press criticism of the Administration...