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...first time, in ART, Masterpieces of Chinese Art. CALIFORNIA'S political gun slingers were moseying around the state last week, setting up barricades for the inevitable shouting that will break out when Governor Goodwin Knight defends his job against tall-in-the-saddle U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland next year. Somebody is bound to get hit, and one somebody might be fellow Californian Richard Nixon. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Coming Attraction...
Republican Senator William Fife Knowland, who has announced his retirement from the Senate in 1958, is now clearly out to take California's statehouse away from his fellow Republican, Governor Goodwin J. Knight, next year. If this is done, any reasonable scenario calls for Knowland to head straight for the presidential nomination in 1960-and run head-on into an even bigger battle with another ambitious Californian, Vice President Richard Nixon...
When he rode grimly into Los Angeles territory last week, Big Bill Knowland set about doing away with his transparent pretense that nothing political was on his mind. Nope, he told newsmen, there was nothing new to announce concerning his future plans. Yep, he and the missis were planning to take a vacation. And then he would "tour the state from the Oregon border to the Mexican border." Was this to be all one big vacation trip? Big Bill shifted his gun belt. "You can't," he said without cracking a smile, "combine a vacation with a campaign...
WASHINGTON, April 30--Opposition by Sen. Knowland (R-Calif.) and post-ponement of Senate action by Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) chilled the chances today that Congress will approve President Eisenhower's school aid program...
...President should have realized that vote-minded Congressmen always turn to the foreign affairs sections of the budget when they consider saving money while also saving votes. After all these years, the President should have realized that conservatives like Knowland and Byrd needed little excuse, not to mention prodding, to start whittling away foreign spending...