Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was enough politics for Frank Knox until last autumn, when, in the absence of famed Adman Albert Davis Lasker, he was called upon to make a speech to raise Republican funds at an Old Elm dinner. Frank Knox, ineloquent but convincing, raised $75,000. He was called upon to repeat the trick in Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Some of his listeners began telling each other that Frank Knox would make a good nominee in 1936, and that made a good story for reporters covering the affairs. In a national poll of young Republicans and old Republican county chairmen and city...
...Speaking only about Kansas last week he said: "I am extremely flattered by the Presidential talk, but these are difficult times and I owe the people of Kansas a duty to stick by my guns in the State." What Is Herbert Hoover? In the Republican equation for 1936, Frank Knox is a potent known quantity. Alf Landon is a potential quantity. Herbert Hoover is Quantity X. Herbert Hoover may utterly lack human plasticity. But no one familiar with him ever denied that he has a keen mind and is capable of at least one passion, that of anger. Ever since...
...Harvard lineup: g., perry (Briggs) (Wallace); l.f., Fuller (Powell); r.f., Holcombe (Morrisson); l.h., Vincent (Haskell) (Brooks); c.h., Capt. Dorman (R.Scott) (L. Burbank); r.h., A. Scott (D.Burbank) (Jefferys); l.e., Wood (Knox) (O"Connor) (Angel); l.f., E. Motley (Hastings); c., Robie (Kelley) (MOrgan) (Howard); r.i., T. Motley (sleeper); r.e, Dawson (Fraley...
...Long Island and vying with each other at polo ever since they were old enough to pick up the rudiments of the world's most patrician pastime. On the same afternoon that Hurlingham was losing at Meadow Brook, Old Westbury was losing at nearby Bostwick Field to Seymour Knox's Aurora, champions in 1933. Two days later, Aurora nosed out the Hurricanes 11-to-10, for a place in the final against Greentree. Greentree, Jock Whitney's team, has never won the Open but this year, ahead of Whitney at Back, are Pete Bostwick, Gerald Balding...
...tractors, three tanks (not counting 27 worthless relics of the War) and a detachment of motorized cavalry. The three Christie tanks, eleven-ton monsters, were capable of traveling 60 m.p.h. on roads, 30 m.p.h. over hill & dale. The mechanized detachment of the ist Cavalry (at present stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., where the Treasury is building great underground vaults in which to store gold bullion) consisted of two fully armored, five-ton, six-wheeled cars, two "half tracks" (semi-caterpillars), a rolling kitchen capable of preparing meals at 40 m.p.h., a motorcycle and sidecar and a baggage truck...