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Government officials and opinion leaders played a large role in fanning the flames. For some reason, Navy Secretary Frank Knox said secret agents in Hawaii had effectively helped Japan, though he knew the statement was untrue. A Treasury Department official announced that 20,000 members of the Japanese- American community were "ready for organized action" to cripple the war effort. Earl Warren, then California attorney general, and Columnist Walter Lippmann echoed that theme with some remarkably paranoid reasoning: the lack of sabotage was an eerie sign, indicating that tightly disciplined Japanese Americans must be quietly planning some sort of massive...
Several scholarships are available to British students wishing to study in the United States--the most prestigious ones are the Henry, the Choate and the Knox, each of which bring one scholar per year, the Harkness, which brings about 10 students, and the Kennedy, which brings about 12 per year...
Close encounter. Although George Bush had adamantly rejected Bob Dole's challenge to a series of debates in Illinois, both wound up at separate events at Knox College in Galesburg, site of a Lincoln-Douglas clash. Fearful of an ambush, Bush's men dispatched a staffer with a walkie-talkie to watch Dole. When Dole finished his event and headed toward where Bush was giving his dinner speech, the staffer frantically radioed, "He's on his way over...
...interesting people have not been customers, Cummings says. For Cummings, the Coop has been "more of a family affair. We sort of adopted each other. Alice Knox's granddaughter is my godchild...
...this day and age, career loyalty, such as that shown by Knox, Sutherland, Cummings and Makris, is rarely found among young people. With the present high-turnover rate of most retail store employees, it is unlikely that fifty years from now, women such as these four will have worked at a department store for such a breadth of time. In the meantime, Sutherland, Cummings and Makris have no plans for retirement...