Word: knowland
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...California's most influential papers during the 62 years it belonged to the family of the late Republican Senate Leader William F. Knowland, the Tribune slipped along with its city in the 1960s and 1970s. Maynard broadened sports and business coverage and gave the paper visibility with four "blockbuster" reports of at least ten pages each on gritty urban problems: jobs, schools, drugs and murder...
...hesitant to make a third attempt. But he put his name forward at the last minute and edged out Robert Griffin of Michigan by one vote. In 1980 the G.O.P. won a three-seat Senate majority and Baker became the first Republican majority leader since California's William Knowland...