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William E. Knox, new president of Westinghouse Electric International Co., has a simple, realistic philosophy about foreign trade: "You can't do business with a poorhouse." Conceding that exports will boom for a while, he believes they are bound to fall off after a few years to the prewar level, or below...
...week's end McMinn County Politicos Paul Cantrell and Pat Mansfield, whose Democratic machine had bullied the fertile East Tennessee valley for ten years, were still absent and in hiding. The entire G.I. Nonpartisan ticket (including two Republicans) had been declared elected. The new Sheriff will be Knox Henry, 34, filling-station owner and an overseas Air Corps sergeant...
...final evaluation of the 70-day hearings, the Democratic majority found the military to blame, found no fault in the planning or actions of the Roosevelt Administration. In a minority report Republican Senators Ferguson (Michigan) and Brewster (Maine) blamed Franklin Roosevelt and Secretaries Hull, Stimson and Knox, but necessarily found the military commanders were also slow of head and foot...
Nelson R. Knox...
...comic strip-or of what the strip was before it got "significance." In really brilliant style it strikes precisely the comic-strip attitude-the understatement of motion, the two-dimensional, parodic life. The villain of the piece (Eduardo Ciannelli) never peeks out from behind his leer; the heroine (Elyse Knox) is rich but unspoiled; the hero (Joe Kirkwood Jr.) is profoundly respectful of his mother, and as innocent as if he had never had a man-to-man talk with his father...