Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knight Life...
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR MAY 30 COVER STORY OF CALIFORNIA'S COLORFUL GOVERNOR GOODWIN KNIGHT. TIME FAILED TO MENTION, HOWEVER, THAT HIS HAMMY ANTICS ARE JUST INCIDENTAL TO THE FACT THAT HE IS THE MOST CAPABLE GOVERNOR IN THE 48 STATES...
...DISAGREE WITH YOUR STORY ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN CALIFORNIA. THE STORY WAS COMPLETELY WRONG IN SAYING "KNOWLAND IS ... LEAST FAVORITE SON." SENATOR KNOWLAND HAS HELD MORE PUBLIC OFFICES AND PARTY POSITIONS THAN NIXON AND KNIGHT PUT TOGETHER. HE HAS BEEN AN OFFICEHOLDER LONGER AND BY FAR THE BEST VOTE-GETTER, INCLUDING THE CHIEF JUSTICE, IN OUR STATE'S HISTORY...
...ordered for breakfast. The gas chamber execution was scheduled for 10 a.m. At 9:05 the governor's office called and postponed the execution because the State Supreme Court had been asked by Barbara's lawyer to hear a new argument. At 10:26 a.m. Governor Goodwin Knight himself called, said the court had rejected the request. A remote-reading stethoscope was being taped over Barbara Graham's heart when a third call came at 10:43, delaying the execution. A new petition had been filed. Cried Barbara: "Why do they torture me? I was ready...
...Eagleville (pop. 425), Solvang (pop. 800). * The governor's name was no capricious pun; he was named for C. C. Goodwin, a famed editor of the Salt Lake City Tribune, and his middle name, like his father's, was a shortened tribute to Great-Uncle Jesse Knight, a multimillionaire mine owner, and one of early Utah's most colorful citizens. One night in a dream, Uncle Jesse received instructions through a "manifestation" (a Mormon expression for a message from on high) to stake a claim at the supposedly worthless Humbug property. He struck gold, silver and lead...