Word: knights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed Du Pont family whose industries make everything from dynamite to dainty ladies' hand-mirrors. To the Senate they have sent T. Coleman du Pont, Republican. The other tribe bears the name of Bayard. Many centuries ago, its forefathers sprang from the loins of Chevalier de Bayard, that knight sans peur et sans reproche. In the U.S. the Bayards have been in the Senate with surprising regularity since the days of Thomas Jefferson. Now there sits as the colleague of Senator du Pont, one Thomas F. Bayard,* Democrat...
...Chicago; P. N. Booth '99, Louisville; M. M. Lemann '06, New Orleans; E. M. Grossman '96, St. Louis; Pierce Butler, Jr. '17, St. Paul; D. B. Trefethen '01, Seattle; Nathan Pereles, Jr. '07, Milwaukee; M. C. Sloss '93, San Francisco; R. V. Reppy '05, Los Angeles; and T. A. Knight '15, Dallas...
...Stearns (now retired) received, in 1912 the license to use the motor in his Stearns-Knight cars. In 1915 Mr. Willys, who learned the merits of the motor from gossip during a transatlantic trip, bought the rights for the light car field. No U. S. passenger cars but the Stearns-Knight and Willys-Knight may yet use this motor, although the Federal Truck has it and, strangely, the Yellow Cab, which is now owned by General Motors, great maker and marketer of poppet-valve motor cars...
...Knight patents have until 1934 to run. Then there doubtless will be a scramble of manufacturers who will install this engine. But Mr. Knight, retired at Los Angeles with his royalties ever flowing, has been so improving the mechanism that he can keep his own licensees always ahead of competitors...
...Stutz, 92 h. p., is reputed the most powerful stock car built in the U. S. In price the Daimler-Knight competes with the Rolls-Royce, various models of which sell at from $14,000 to $16,300. Locomo-biles cost from $2,360 to $15,000; Lincolns...