Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long before last November's Democratic landslide swept him out of the Senate, George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire was made a standing offer by William Randolph Hearst to become an editorial writer at $50,000 a year. Not to the Hearst organization, but to Publisher Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News, onetime Hearstling, went George Moses. Last week, from Washington, he began writing a colyum on national and international events for the News...
...Directors of I. A. & A. Armament was permitted only to the I. A. police. Popular government, individual liberty were anachronisms in this sternly centralized system. And though peace & prosperity were everywhere, here & there the old superstition of liberty still lingered on. Individual hotheads got nowhere, however, till young David Knox, greatest scientist of them all, took a hand in affairs...
...Knox was an individualist-more than anyone knew-and disgruntled young men, smarting under the tyranny of I. A. & A., began to desert their posts and come to him by night. Soon he had a picked corps. Directors of I. A. & A. wanted no trouble with Knox, partly because of his fame (he was the Lindbergh-Edison-Einstein of his day) but mostly because they feared some threatening invention up his sleeve. Sure enough, Knox had discovered Motive Air: utilization of elements in the air itself to drive airplanes at a speed of over 1,000 m.p.h. In his carefully...
...this bill. President Roosevelt's original proclamation was based on the wartime Trading-With-the-Enemy Act. Grave doubt existed as to the legality of his orders because U. S. courts have implied that that Act, while not specifically repealed, expired in 1921 with the passage of the Knox peace resolution. Even loyal Senator Glass exclaimed in the Senate debate: "Some of us are disposed to think these proclamations have been invalid and unconstitutional...
...without respect to nationality, let "dagoes" not unduly offend any national sensibilities.-ED. *The curious, eminently readable, 89-year-old Nassau Guardian, semiweekly (circulation 3,000), composed on old tombstones and jointly owned by Miss Mary Moseley and Knowlton Lyman ("Junior") Ames of Chicago, assistant to Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News. *In 1893 Carter Henry Harrison, another "World's Fair Mayor" of Chicago, was assassinated in his own doorway by a young jobseeker...