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Querying the 600 members of the Republican State Central Committee, the 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...
Butler replied that Republicans were "doing a huckster job on peace," and quoted Republican Senator William Knowland on "peace without honor" in Korea. He accused the Administration of conducting a government "of big business, by big business, for big business...
...took over a politically potent paper that has often teamed up with the Oakland Tribune of Joseph R. Knowland, Senator Knowland's father, and Norman Chandler's Los Angeles Times to pick and back the winning candidates in California politics. But financially, the Chronicle has long been ailing...
...Nixon is widely known and liked among the leaders of his own party across the U.S he has trouble in the Republican organization of his home state. His rapid rise in politics has not been greeted with any joy by two older hands in California Republicanism U.S. Senator William Knowland and Governor Goodwin J. Knight. Nixon and Knight factions have been feuding for a long time; the odds favor a Knight-controlled delegation to the Republican National Convention...
Last week Goodie Knight was among the first Republican politicians to start speculating in public about G.O.P. presidential prospects in the light of the President's illness. He listed for reporters the men he considered outstanding possibilities: California's Senator William Knowland, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, United Nations Representative Henry...