Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ralph Knox, an ousted union official whom his former associates would like to put in a psychopathic ward, launched the American Automobile, Aircraft, Automotive and Allied Employes, claimed 20,000 members would desert U. A. W. to start...
...valuable pursuit-plane plans to the Nazi intelligence service; ex-Private Erich Glaser, 28, of the U. S. Air Corps, who was unfortunate enough to be the friend of a U. S. Army deserter named Guenther Gustav Rumrich. Deserter Rumrich pleaded guilty, turned Government evidence, inspired Judge John C. Knox to call him "at times an unmitigated liar...
While the jury was out, reporters at the press table got sorry for pallid, sobbing Miss Hofmann. They bought some lipstick for her, learned that she doesn't use lipstick. After the jury reported, Judge Knox said he was sorry, too, but would have to make an example of her. For her: four years: Mechanic Voss, six years; Friends Rumrich and Glaser, two each...
...District Attorney Lamar Hardy confessed that the convictions of these small fry merely scratched the surface of espionage. Judge Knox thought the trial was a constructive lesson for inquisitive Nazis, sternly reminded the defendants: "In this country, we spread no sawdust on ... our prison yards." He meant that the U. S. did not behead its spies. (In war time, it could shoot or hang them.) Next day in Berlin, a Nazi headsman decapitated two spies for "unnamed foreign powers...
...could doubtless be shelved by a nice Federal appointment. So, perhaps, could ambitious Tom Courtney, who might even be set up to succeed Governor Horner. Having him for Mayor of Chicago would be no fun for the New Deal either since he is the personal candidate of Colonel Frank Knox's Daily News. Some surprising deal was seen in the making when Tom Courtney visited Harold Ickes in Washington over the weekend...