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...Admire Him." Knowland attended the University of California, came home after 3½ years with an A.B., an executive job with the Tribune-and a wife. Characteristically, he had known Helen Herrick since the sixth grade, had gone with her for eight years, bought a ring, made careful arrangements and then-on New Year's Eve, 1926-eloped...
...Sunday comics and demanded-unsuccessfully-that J.R. fire the managing editor. During his school years he had sometimes worked summers and weekends at the Tribune, at one time conducted a children's column called "Aunt Elsie." One of his efforts began: "Heidie-ho, kiddies, this is Billy Knowland with another story." Now, however, his duties were vague. He put in some time on the Tribune's business side, helped streamline the logotype-and feverishly pursued his political career...
...backer of young Earl Warren. Warren and Billy first met about the time Herbert Hoover was campaigning against Al Smith in 1928. Warren was struck by the political skill and vigor of the man 17 years his junior. Says Warren: "You had to admire him." The admiration was mutual. Knowland became a leading spirit among the young California Republicans who were later Warren's greatest political strength. There is a California legend that Warren, repaying his debt to Joe Knowland, lifted Bill to political prominence. Actually, Earl and Bill helped each other in near-equal degree. Explains Warren...
Succeeding Earl Warren as California's Republican national committeeman (Warren resigned to become state attorney general), Knowland used the post to travel the length and breadth of the state, getting to know people and letting them know him. He made news on being elected chairman of the Republican National Committee's executive committee, posed for pictures with every leading G.O.P. candidate who came through town, including Republican Leaders Tom Dewey and Wendell Willkie. He was, in fact, carefully preparing for the day when Hiram Johnson's Senate place would become vacant...
...strenuous efforts were interrupted. On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Knowland was having breakfast in bed when Tribune City Editor Al Reck called with the news of Pearl Harbor. Scrambling out of bed, Knowland sent his breakfast dishes flying in all directions. Six months later he was off to the Army, soon was bound for Europe as a public information and military government officer. It was in the summer of 1945 when Major William Knowland, drinking coffee in an Army cafeteria in Paris, picked up a copy of Stars and Stripes and read that he had been appointed...