Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago the voters of Illinois smacked the face of Publisher William Franklin Knox by giving Senator William Edgar Borah a majority in the Presidential preference vote everywhere except in Cook County. Fortnight ago the voters of California rapped the knuckles of Kansas' Governor Alfred Mossman Landon by electing a slate of uninstructed delegates to the Republican National Convention. Last week the voters of Ohio made it all even between the three active Republican candidates by boxing the ears of Senator Borah...
...elder son of the late Chief Justice. Candidate Borah stumped vigorously in the northern portion of the State, made a loud noise against false-front candidacies. Candidate Taft canvassed the State like a bona fide candidate, although Ohio freely figured that his delegates really stood for Governor Landon, Publisher Knox and Senator Vandenberg...
Friends & Foes. Untraveled Alf Landon has no such multitude of friends throughout the land as Franklin Roosevelt had cultivated before 1932. By the same token, he has few enemies. Candidate Herbert Hoover is reputed to have privately called Candidate Landon "wishy-washy" and "smeared with oil." Candidate Frank Knox has publicly declared Alf Landon a man after his own mind, whom he would gladly support in a Presidential campaign. Candidate William E. Borah last week announced: "If Mr. Knox or Mr. Landon comes to the Cleveland convention with a fair expression of the public that he is their choice...
...ballot in which the voter may indicate his preference. Last week 76,710 Massachusetts Republicans wrote in the name of Alfred Mossman Landon. That was more than ten times as many as scribbled the name of Herbert Hoover, nine times the total for the next three choices-Borah, Vandenberg, Knox...
From this quartette, Herbert Hoover, William R. Borah, Alfred Landon, and Col. Frank Knox, the Republicans this summer may pick a presidential candidate. If they do, the candidate will be one college man who doesn't believe in tampering with the Constitution...