Word: knightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice President Richard Nixon and California's Governor Goodwin Knight, whose love for Republicans in general does not extend to each other in particular, had another little tussle for precedence. Asked to introduce Nixon at a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner in San Francisco next month, Goodie Knight found he had a "previous engagement." But he sent Nixon a telegram offering to introduce the Vice President at another Republican rally in Los Angeles where the governor would be the undisputed star...
Trouble Ahead? Then trouble loomed for Robinson. Nine months ago, Chicago Daily News Publisher John S. Knight moved into Charlotte, bought the Obverser and newsmen wondered whether Robinson would fight him or try to make a deal to let him take over the News, make Charlotte a one-paper town...
...Robinson gave his answer. He borrowed $1,000,000 and brought out all of his stockholders. For them it ws a good deal: they got back more than double (before taxes) what they had invested. With complete ownership of the paper, Robinson squared off to do battle with the Knight chain. Tom Robinson professes to be unworried. Says he: "It's very healthy for any city to have strongly competitive papers. The Knights just make my days longer...
...Appointed two Democrats, Texas' Governor Allan Shivers and Boston Mayor John Hynes, and a Republican, California's Governor Goodwin Knight, to the National Civil Defense Advisory Council...
...widening Automogul Henry Ford II and his petite wife Anne, togged for a make-believe Arabian night, met up with tall-on-the-camel Cinemactor Gary (Beau Geste) Cooper at a Baghdad ball in Southampton. For his resemblance to a sheik on his way to a shower bath, Arabian Knight Cooper copped first prize in the men's division for his getup's elegant authenticity...