Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minority Leader William Fife Knowland, with no G.O.P. opposition, got the Republican nomination, and will fight out the governorship with Brown in November. In the battle for a Senate successor to Bill Knowland, Northern California's Congressman Clair Engle took the Democratic nomination. And G.O.P. Governor Goodwin J. Knight, who ran for the Senate after Knowland pressured him out of another term as Governor, won the Republican nomination over San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher...
...returned triumphantly to the Senate with the most votes (3,982,448)
any California candidate ever got. Knowland polled 15% of the
Democratic vote.
...Washington, led his Republican opponent handsomely, though he was far less of a statewide personality. Had Knowland stirred up a hornets' nest of organized-labor opposition with his unqualified stand for a state right-to-work law? Labor certainly was out to beat him. But Republican Goodie Knight, longtime friend of organized labor, trailed badly...
What about Labor? No sooner had Knowland declared last fall than he spelled out plank No. 1, a right-to-work law. Other major Republicans, e.g., Goodie Knight, oppose right to work, as do the Democrats. Labor unions have urged their memberships to vote Knowland down. Will he be buoyed or buried by his stand...
...California's Top-Dog Republican? Before Knowland decided to swap his Senate seat for the Governor's chair, Goodie Knight had declared for another term in Sacramento. After Knowland and Nixon forces pressured Knight into the Senate race, Knight lost considerable face in party ranks. Should gregarious, pro-labor Goodie Knight pull more votes for the Senate than Knowland gets for Govenor, Goodie would doubtless establish himself as (next to Vice President Nixon) the state's top-dog Republican...