Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Borah became a candidate because he could not detect a reflection of his liberal dawn on the faces of such men as Herbert Hoover, Kansas' Governor Alfred Mossman Landon or Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News as they turned toward the Republican convention in Cleveland on June...
...fighters. He broke the ice with a thump, announcing that he would run in the Ohio primaries (TIME, Feb. 17). As an attempt to force a fight on Candidates Knox or Landon, it was a failure. Both declined to enter Ohio after his announcement. He was left facing a favorite son. highly respectable Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late Chief Justice, shrewdly picked by Ohio's Boss Walter Folger Brown to head the regular Republican ticket. With their candidate strongest in the Cleveland-Akron-Youngstown area, Borah managers will consider themselves lucky to win half of Ohio...
...Illinois Candidate Borah forced Candidate Knox to fight, for the Chicago publisher could not stay out of the primary (April 14) of his home State. Senator Borah had two advantages in Illinois: 1) He was born on a farm near Fairfield 70 years ago; 2) He had indirect support from the Chicago Tribune which cannot see the publisher of the rival Daily News in the White House. But Publisher Knox has virtually a complete slate of 57 would-be convention delegates in the field, whereas Senator Borah has only twelve. Illinois also conducts a separate statewide Presidential preference vote which...
Republican winner of the Presidential popularity contest prize: Colonel Franklin Knox of Chicago, who lived in New Hampshire for 15 years and who still owns its largest papers, the Manchester Union and Leader. Two Landon men al o ran. In Dallas, Tex., Candidate Knox declared: "At the present time the contest lies between Governor Landon of Kansas and me. We are much alike in viewpoint on issues and agreed that no factional quarrels shall shake party harmony...
Last week she had the misfortune to sprain her back. Consequently, in her match against Betty Knox, No. 5 on the British team, in the first round of the British Squash Racquets Championship, she won the first six points, then lost...