Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THIBAULT D'ARMAGNAC, knight: "In disposing an army for battle and haranguing the soldiers, she behaved like the most experienced captain in all the world...
...major shooting scrape in the continuing California political feud between Vice President Richard Nixon and Governor Goodwin J. Knight came on Aug. 8, 1954, in their fight for control of the Republican State Central Committee. Knight won hands down, installing his men both as chairman and vice chairman, largely because many of the committee members are appointed by state legislators who are notoriously sensitive to the governor's patronage and his veto power over their pet bills. Since then, it has been generally taken for granted that "Goodie" Knight could do much as he liked with the State Central...
...Mirror-News received answers from more than 200. Of them, 79% assumed that President Eisenhower would not be a candidate. Asked to name their personal choices other than Ike, 50.5% endorsed Dick Nixon. After Nixon came Senator William Knowland, with 19.6% and Chief Justice Earl Warren with 16%. Goodie Knight stood a forlorn fourth with 6%. Forty-one percent of the committee members foresaw a primary fight next year between delegations pledged to Nixon and Knight. As between those delegations, 61.7% said they would favor Nixon's, only 22% said they would prefer Knight...
Reading the poll, Goodie Knight announced in New York, where he was on a junket, that for President he would support 1) President Eisenhower if he decided to run again, 2) himself, as favorite-son candidate, if he does not, 3) Dick Nixon if Nixon wins Ike's nod and the G.O.P. nomination...
...Chicago, Daily News Editor-Publisher James S. Knight yelped: "Gouge!" In Quebec City, Emile Castonguay, Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers' Association president, snapped: "No justification!" The outcry on both sides of the border was caused by the fact that Canada's St. Lawrence Corporation, Ltd. had increased newsprint prices $5 a ton, topping (by $2) the alltime high of $130 charged after World War I. Other Canadian newsprint mills were expected to follow suit, as they have in the past...