Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mushroom days of the motor trade, air-cooled cars like Knox and Holmes were common. Only Franklin has survived. It survived not so much be cause of the winterproof feature as because of its quality. One of Franklin's best markets has long been among such mechanically inept persons as doctors, authors, professors who want big car com fort with small car economy. Founder Franklin prized his reputation for fine materials and scrupulous workmanship. Franklin, always a high-priced car, sells today from...
...Outraged by stories of pogroms by Tsar Nicholas' whip-wielding Cossacks, the House of Representatives passed a measure repealing the Russian-U. S. trade agreement. President Taft, realizing that there was ammunition for a serious diplomatic explosion, intervened before the bill reached the Senate. Secretary of State Knox announced that the treaty was being abrogated in accordance with its own terms...
...James C. Knox heads the entertainment committee, which also includes Henry W. Clark '23, and Clifford Gallagher, Freshman football coach...
...League of Nations Commissioner, Geoffrey George Knox, was busily flicking his whip last week into one of Europe's wildest dog-pits, that smoking little valley of coal on France's northeastern border, the Saar Basin. Largely German, most of his charges would two years ago have welcomed the plebiscite scheduled for next year to decide whether the Saar will be French or German. But now Saar Socialists, Communists and Catholics, faced with choosing between their ancient enemy France and Nazi Germany, are begging to have the plebiscite postponed. Their newspapers howl direfully against Hitler & friends. In reply...
Commissioner Knox sent a vivid, formal report on his dog-pit to the League's committee on the Saar Plebiscite. Sitting in Geneva, the three committee members, Italy's Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Spain's Salvador de Madariaga and Argentina's José M. Cantilo, could scarcely believe what they read. Last week they sent for Mr. Knox. He laid aside his dog-whip, scudded into Geneva, told the commissioners that Nazi terrorists are already acting as if they own the Saar. To reenforce his 1,100 police, many of whom have been bribed by one faction...