Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor James Michael Curley, Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison, Michigan's Democratic Governor-Elect Frank Murphy, Democratic Treasurer of the U. S. William Alexander Julian, Democratic White House Secretaries Stephen Early & Marvin Mclntyre, Democratic Press-agent Charles Michelson and Republican also-ran Colonel William Franklin ("Frank") Knox...
...commanded from them nor the slightest degree of dignity lent and so therefore the only sensible thing to do was secede from the Union." To establish the bona fides of the new nation, a list of its public officials was appended: President, Alf M. Landon; Vice President, Frank Knox; Secretary of State, Alfred E. Smith; Secretary of the Treasury, du Pont and du Pont; Attorney General, John W. Davis; Secretary of the Interior, Jim Reed; Postmaster General, John D. M. Hamilton; Secretary of Commerce, Governor E. W. Marland; Ambassador to Bolivia, former Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray; Ambassador to Russia, William...
Striking was the juxtaposition of two seldom seen, well-guarded fortresses: Kentucky's Fort Knox, where the U. S. Treasury is to move most of its gold bullion, and Britain's equally obscure Fort Belvedere, where Edward VIII goes for week ends with his U. S. friend, Mrs. Simpson. For scientifically-minded readers, LIFE depicted, with explicit captions, the cannibal romance of the famed Black Widow spider, who devours her mate when done with...
...time at least the terrific impact of his victory had knocked the wind out of all opposition. Alf Landon's personal friend William Allen White publicly proclaimed: "It was not an election which the country has just undergone but a political Johnstown flood." On its front page Frank Knox's Chicago News editorially crowned "The President of the whole people of the United States . . . entitled to the support of all citizens...
...Chicago on Eastern Standard Time all year round. Biggest backer of the change was arch-Republican Colonel Robert R. McCormick who wanted to get an hour's more news every day for his morning Tribune, take away an hour's news from his rival, Colonel Frank Knox's afternoon News. This week Chicagoans were given an opportunity not of settling the question but making their preferences known by an advisory referendum on three questions 1) Shall Chicago have Eastern Time (daylight saving all year round)? 2) Shall Chicago have Central Time (no daylight saving)? 3) Shall Chicago...