Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...challenge for a New Deal debate was hurled at the Landon-Knox forces by Ray Dennett '36, newly elected statewide head. He characterized the Republican forces in the College as "reactionairies who don't know what it is all about" and freely prophesied a Democratic victory in the debate on the New Deal's constitutionality...
...quiet orderly meeting of about 50 charter members, the Harvard Unit of the Massachusetts Landon-Knox Republican College Club was officially organized last night in the Junior Common Room of Kirkland House. David J. Davidson '37 represented the National Republican Committee, while Ira A. Watson '37 acted as temporary chairman at the request of the Republican State Committee...
Organizer of the Landon-Knox College Clubs throughout Massachusetts, Alexander Welch made the final speech of the evening. He presented some of the more attractive jobs in connection with the club, such as driving carloads of people to the polls, each car being understood to contain very personable young ladies as escorts
...presidents of six big insurance companies filed into the President's office to discuss mortgages and real estate appraisals. As they were leaving, Franklin Roosevelt jocularly warned them that newshawks would be waiting to ask them about Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Frank Knox's declaration that no insurance policy is safe today (TIME, Sept. 21). Taking the cue, they announced as they emerged that life insurance company assets were up $3,000,000,000 since 1933, called attention to the fact that FCA, HOLC and RFC had bailed insurance" companies out of some $523,000,000 of troublesome...
When Herbert Hoover arrived in Manhattan to perform his duties as director of New York Life Insurance Co., a reporter for the pro-New Deal New York Daily News cornered him in the New York Life Building, asked him if he agreed with Nominee Knox's statement...