Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American, yearbook of Alma College (Mich.), can be found the following statement to the right of the picture of William Franklin Knox of the Graduating class: "If you had seen me five years ago, you wouldn't know me now." Senior Knox had undergone some changes indeed. He had come pretty green to the campus in 1893 on the advice of a Presbyterian minister who told him he would be able to work his way through at Alma...
...Pennsylvania. Six years later his father took the family out of Kansas to prospect for oil wells, and one of his wells "came in." So in 1904, when son Alfenrolled at the University of Kansas, he didn't have to work his way through college, as had college men Knox, Hoover and Borah. Alf joined Phi Gamma Delta, the "rich boys fraternity" of his day at Kansas, and proceeded to make a reputation for himself of being stingy. He had the first tuxedo in town, yet be campaigned successfully to cut the ice cream course from the house menu...
Nevertheless, they are un-pledged; nor is it by any means certain that the genial Kansan will be the national Republican choice next June. Borah is a definite possibility, as is Knox, and there is always that man named Hoover. Support of the President by his party, on the other hand, if casual, was at least certain, and if this is not the case at the Philadelphia convention, it will be most unusual. The obvious inference is that Massachusetts Republicans voted for Landon because he is the most in the limelight at the present moment, an uncertain reason at best...
...evening last week three candidates for President, Franklin Roosevelt, Publisher Frank Knox and Senator Arthur Vandenberg. sat down with many another bigwig of Politics. Business and Press. They laughed until their sides ached at the political slapstick of the Gridiron Club's spring dinner. When the fun was over at a late hour. President Roosevelt, feeling all warm and good inside, went back to the White House. There he found waiting him a message from the Naval Hospital: Louis McHenry Howe, his No. 1 secretary, was dead. Mrs. Roosevelt was already telephoning the news to Mrs. Howe in Boston...
Ever do the Republican politicians lash the flanks of the Democratic Donkey with the cry of "economy". It has caught and will spread like wild-fire through the summer mouths, fanned constantly by the bellows of such outstanding political Hamlets as Hoover, Landon, Knox and Borah; never forgetting the large and well paid machines behind these personalities. Economy will, in short, probably have more to do with the election of the next President than any other single issue. Whatever the result may be, the unloading of such unfinished and dead cargo as the Florida ship-canal and the Passamaquoddy project...