Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Does politically-alert TIME feel in its own heart that Publisher Frank Knox is presidentially possible [TIME, Oct. 14]? Its recital of his life's work to date reads like that of any other tycoon of the street who has learned how to make money and employ it wisely. A reader of the Chicago Daily News ever since Candidate Knox took it over, and long before. I have never known it to profess a political creed other than standpat, high-tariffed, hands-off Republicanism, the creed of the American debacle...
...Publisher Knox stands for social, justice and collective bargaining, but not as the New Deal understands them. What does that mean? Every ward-heeler who has ever run for office has campaigned for the Rights of Man: not until the Roosevelt years have such banalities become meaningful, articulate...
...Wagner Bill is one of those pleasant expressions U. S. politicians have used since the steam engine was invented, without ever giving thought to that A B C of government, that there can be no justice without law. and no law without a sanction. Either Republicans of the Knox and Hoover type do not know this, and in that event we deprecate their naivete, or they are insincere in holding out to Labor a palm that is greasy with the stuff from Wall Street that makes the G. O. P. machine go round...
...Nunnally Johnson refers to the Los Angeles Times's "singlehanded fight to persuade the world that the name is Hoover, not Boulder, Dam" [TIME. Oct. 21]. The fight is not single-handed for the Chicago Daily News does the same thing. It may be a coincidence, but Frank Knox. the publisher, apparently has presidential aspirations and Mr. Hoover, according to TIME. is a mighty potent force in Republican ranks even today...
Goals for Harvard: Howard (Morgan) Knox (Kelly...