Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, Henderson saw a chance to stage a second meet this year at the Chicago World's Fair. He approached the Tribune for backing and was turned down because, according to the Tribune, he wanted too much money. Next he buttonholed Col. William Franklin Knox of the News. Unlike the Tribune's air-minded Col. Robert McCormick, Col. Knox has never flown; but he will listen to anything that might mean scoring against the Tribune. He snapped at the idea. The Tribune caught wind of the deal, decided to stage a meet of its own without Henderson...
...swore he would get to division point on time; he drove the train recklessly through the storm. The conductor was worried. At Avondalc they had to stop to pick up a single passenger- Everett Jason, a long-repressed model husband who was methodically running away from his wife. Martin Knox, criminal lawyer, was bringing a secret star witness back East: red-headed Lena Karelsen, whose evidence would free his gunman client, smash the political ring. Three people were on Knox's trail: Representative Tom Linscott, mouthpiece of the ring, Newspaperwoman Ada Robillard, once Knox's mistress...
...engineer to death. During the long wait for the relief engine Jason and Lena decided to make a run for it to the nearest town. But a railroad detective chased them, shot Lena. Jason's dream of freedom collapsed; he knew he would go home to his wife. Knox's star witness was gone but he got his old mistress back again. The remains of old Magowan, covered with a blanket, were carried in to division point where a testimonial dinner was to have been given him with speeches he had waited 60 years to hear...
Lewis Isolin, H. H. Jay, R. L. Jay, W. P. Jones, P. D. Junkin, J. J. Knox, R. P. Lavietes, F. B. Lawson, J. B. Little, C. P. Lyman, B. T. Macliveen, J. H. Macey, E. C. Malowitz, Harry Marvin-Smith, B. F. Merriam, Edward Motley, A. E. Newhold, P. D. O'Brien, M. A. Olson, G. A. Ott, Gordon Palmer, H. V. Poor, R. D. Reed, Warren Richards, B. C. Riggs, S. H. Rindge, E. L. Rogers, E. P. Rosenbaum, J. B. Rowland, S. C. Salmon, Mark Saxton, F. F. Schimmel, O. M. Schloss, C. G. Sherwood, Roger Silsby...
Excerpts from first colyum for Col. Knox...