Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Ford: I haven't voted for 20 years, but I am going to vote this time. Vote for Landon. And for Knox. Now, there's a vigorous fellow...
Energetic Frank Knox spent election night bustling about his Chicago Daily News office, getting out extras conceding his defeat. One consolation to the booming Colonel as he settled back into publishing harness and competition with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune was Chicago's decision at the polls to limit its McCormick-fostered daylight saving time to summer only (see p. 26). This return restored to the News the normal advantage of a Midwestern evening paper over its morning rival on Washington news and final New York stock quotations...
...whole mess may rightfully be blamed on the deplorable lack of Electoral College spirit. In another month the electors will get togethers in some hall and cast their votes just as if it didn't matter which way they went. How can they expect Landon and Knox and Roosevelt and Garner down there on the field to give everything they've got when the Electoral College boys sit back on the bleachers and say isn't it a shame we haven't had a good team since Lincoln and Hamlin...
John Nance Garner reported no financial transactions whatever. Alfred M. Landon and William Pranklin Knox reported no receipts and all expenses taken care of by the Republican National Committee...
True it is that, except for the rabidly New Deal tabloid Times, Chicago has been fed a steady anti-New Deal diet by its press. Only morning alternative to the Tribune is William Randolph Hearst's Herald & Examiner; only full-sized evening alternative to Colonel Frank Knox's News (circulation: 394,000) is Hearst's American. But Publisher Knox, as he speaks through his paper, has been by no means so violent as Vice-Presidential Nominee Knox speaking from the stump. The News has generally front-paged a boondoggle story, exuded confidence in Republican victory, given Republican...