Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...HANS KNIGHT...
...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...
...Knight's round was the second half of a double barrel. Earlier, two pro-Knight officers of the G.O.P. State Central Committee sent California Republicans a letter bemoaning "impending Republican Party suicide," suggesting that Bill Knowland remove himself as a gubernatorial possibility. Knowland "cannot possibly muster the broad popular support which is necessary to win the governorship," the letter said, and if he insists on a knockdown, drag-out primary with Knight, "the resultant Democratic swing well might take not only the governorship but the other major constitutional posts, the U.S. Senatorship, the majority of the Congressional delegation...
...Knight blasts bothered Knowland he did not show it. He was moving through Southern California, drawing big crowds (a congregation of 1,000 at St. Paul Baptist Church in Los Angeles' Negro section gave him a scroll for his work on the civil rights bill). Openly tapping the well of conservatism in California, he continued to call for restrictive labor legislation. Did he think he was driving California Republicanism to suicide to further his own ambitions? Why, said Bill Knowland with his frozen grin, a brisk primary might inject new life into the California G.O.P...