Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last summer he published an advertisement suggesting as a G. 0. P. slogan: "Landon Knox Out Roosevelt." On his latest statement, with startling restraint, Banker Nichols simply splashed the FDIC legend with red ink, below the smudge printed: "A Blot On Our Statement...
William J. Hammond '37, president of the Landon-Knox clubs, said "Results of the CRIMSON poll . . . clearly indicate that socialistic element have switched from Norman Thomas to Mr. Roosevelt, while those believing in maintaining the standard of American democracy have marked for approval the candidacy of Alfred M. Landon...
...most hotly contested political battle of our times today's Crimson poll should stir up more interest than the ordinary straw vote. The activites of Harvard students in the campaign of recent weeks the Landon-Knox Club, the First Voters League, the Roosevelt organizations, all show a ferment of undergraduate opinion unusual in a university accustomed to taking its politics in the coolest manner...
...Sandburg came back to hometown Galesburg wearing the blue of a private who had seen service with the 6th Illinois Volunteers in Porto Rico. Hero Sandburg resumed his poverty-ridden studies at Lombard College. Edgar Lee Masters came to Knox College from Kansas, stayed several years, and prepared for life in a law office...
...aimless years as a humble laborer and newspaper man, Sandburg startled American letters with his Chicago Poems in 1915. Edgar Lee Masters discovered the emptiness of small town middle western life in Spoon River Anthology in 1922 after he had ceased to practice law. To Lombard's Carl Sandburg, Knox College has given an honorary Litt. D. To its own son Edgar Lee Masters, Knox has awarded no similar honor...