Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land on Eastern Standard Time. Pleased were La Salle Street financiers at their synchronization with Wall Street a thousand miles away. More pleased was Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose morning Tribune thus gained an additional 60 minutes to gather news and readers. Thoroughly displeased was Publisher William Franklin Knox, whose afternoon Daily News had to postpone its huge market edition one hour...
...contest Ohio without stumping the State, which he could not do because it would not be "fair to the people of Kansas" to neglect his job as Governor. Second place (20.8%) in the poll went to Senator Borah. That helped even less. Third place (13.2%) went to Colonel Frank Knox. Publisher Knox declined to take the risk. Fourth place (4.1%) went to Herbert Hoover. Mr. Hoover was not even asked. Fifth place (2.9%) went to Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan. He asked to be excused. Sixth place (.6%) to Senator Lester Dickinson of Iowa, who said no thanks...
Four-fifths of the thousand-odd votes cast favored one of the Republican candidates. Colonel Frank Knox is the fourth in the list of preferences, and the well-known Chicago publisher is closely followed by Arthur Vandenberg, Senator from Michigan...
...Finally, whether speaking for himself, or for some other candidate, he will be a powerful vote-getter. Judging the political situation as a whole, it is more important to follow the old wheel-horse's speeches and actions with great attention than it is to follow blindly Landon, Borah, Knox, or Vandenburg, or any other pastel-shaded "horse" of the Republican party...
MARY TUDOR - Beatrice White - Macmillan ($6). A scholarly attempt to prove that "Bloody Mary" was really "piteous, persecuted, harassed, suffering"; a reply to the monstrous regiments of John Knox's accusations...