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Hearst had spent more than $60,000 of his own money in the probe, but still Attorney General Knox was quiescent.
When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.
This strategy was a success, and Knox and Reed were able to fend off all lawsuits that would have placed blame upon the club's members.
A prominent critic was George Orwell, who frequently referred to him in his essays and diaries as " A Catholic Apologist " and accused him of being " silly-clever ", in line with his criticisms of G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox and Wyndham-Lewis.
Early work on Enigma was performed here by Dilly Knox, John R. F.
Calvin's follower John Knox brought Presbyterianism to Scotland when the Scottish church was reformed in 1560.
In the film Villa Rides ( 1968 ), Madero was portrayed by Alexander Knox.
The most influential figure was theologian John Knox ( 1510 – 1572 ), who had lived in Switzerland and was a disciple of both Calvin and Wishart.
The Protestant Church of Scotland was formed in the mid-16th century by Knox and the Protestant Lords of the Congregation.
In 1968 the newly commissioned United States Navy Knox class destroyer escort USS Harold E. Holt ( FF-1074 ) was named in his honour.
James Knox Polk ( " poke "; November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849 ) was the 11th President of the United States ( 1845 – 1849 ).
James Knox Polk, the first of ten children, was born on November 2, 1795 in a farmhouse ( possibly a " log " cabin ) in what is now Pineville, North Carolina in Mecklenburg County, just outside Charlotte.
His mother, Jane Polk ( née Knox ), was a descendant of a brother of the Scottish religious reformer John Knox.
John Knox attacked her in The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regimen of Women, published in 1558, and she was prominently featured and vilified in Actes and Monuments, published by John Foxe in 1563, six years after her death.
George Shaw, who produced the first description of the animal in the Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799, stated that it was impossible not to entertain doubts as to its genuine nature, and Robert Knox believed it might have been produced by some Asian taxidermist.
Presbyterianism was especially influenced by the French / Swiss theologian, John Calvin, who is credited with the development of Reformed theology and the work of John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland and brought his teachings back to Scotland.
It was kept in a vault at Fort Knox until 1978, when it was returned to the nation by order of President Jimmy Carter.
In order to liven up a scene that they thought was too heavy on exposition, they added an " effete art-world hanger-on ", known as Knox Harrington, late in the screenwriting process.
This was known as the Knox – Porter Resolution ; subsequent Peace treaties were signed with both countries and Ratified by the Senate and signed by Harding on July 21, 1921 ; that officially ended World War I for the U. S. The Senate had refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles in both 1919 and 1920 because it required the U. S. to endorse the League of Nations.
Taft, in fashioning his cabinet, showed also that he was not unwilling to depart to some degree from Roosevelt's progressivism ; he named an anti-progressive, Philander Chase Knox Secretary of State, who had primary influence over other appointments.
This reorganization was engineered in large part by Secretary of State Knox's First Assistant Secretary, Huntington Wilson, who served as de facto Secretary of State due to the frequent absence of Knox.
Initial success in China led to an extended effort by the President to effect the Open Door Policy, particularly in Manchuria ; this was not successful due in large part to the President's reliance on the inexperienced Knox, who failed to properly assess the objections of Japan and Russia.

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This was seen as treacherous by Lord Argyll and Lord Moray, who both switched sides and joined Knox, who now based himself in St Andrews.
The car is now on display with other Patton artifacts at the General George Patton Museum at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Some of these troops established themselves at Kinghorn in Fife, and after they destroyed the house of William Kirkcaldy of Grange, according to Knox, Mary declared, " Where is now John Knox's God?
Over 200 baronetcies are now held by peers and others, such as the Knox line, have been made tenuous due to internal family dispute.
General Henry Knox passed through the town in January 1776, bringing cannons from Fort Ticonderoga in New York to aid in ending the Siege of Boston, a route now known as the Knox Trail.
His route is now called the Henry Knox Trail.
It has since been enlarged through the annexation of several common school districts and now includes the towns of Berne, most of Knox, and most of the town of Westerlo, along with small portions of the towns of New Scotland, Rensselaerville, Middleburgh and Wright.
Learning that the operation includes the killing of the inhabitants of Fort Knox by introducing poison into the water supply, Bond manages to conceal a capsule containing a message to Felix Leiter into the toilet of Goldfinger's private plane, where he hopes it will be found and sent to Pinkertons, where his friend and ex-counterpart Felix Leiter now works.
On January 2, 1795, Knox left the government and returned to his home at Thomaston ( now in Maine, but then still a part of Massachusetts ), to devote himself to caring for his growing family.
* Some of the books once owned by Knox now reside in the collection of the Boston Athenaeum
Knox, Randolph and St. Clair counties were separated from the territory effective July 4, 1800, and, along with the western part of Wayne County, and unorganized lands in what are now Minnesota and Wisconsin, became the Indiana Territory.
More staggering was his sudden cancellation, in 1932, of the old William Knox D ' Arcy contract which had now burgeoned into the British Government-controlled Anglo-Persian ( later Anglo-Iranian ) Oil Co. Iran was getting 16 % of the net profits.
When his friend Knox attacked Mary Stuart in his now famous The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, Foxe apparently criticized Knox's " rude vehemency ," although their friendship seems to have remained unimpaired.
He is said to have gone to Europe to recruit German immigrants to settle his 576, 000 acre ( 2, 331 km² ) grant, which included parts of what are now Waldo, Penobscot and Lincoln counties and all of Knox County, Maine, along with the islands within three miles of its border.
All that remains of the original settlement is the church which is now maintained by the Knox Church Crystal Falls Memorial Fund-a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to the preservation of the church and cemetery at Crystal Falls.
Knox was a leading Pittsburgh attorney in partnership with James Hay Reed, their firm being Knox and Reed ( now Reed Smith LLP ).
By proclamation of acting governor and territorial secretary Winthrop Sargent, the " first " Wayne County was established August 15, 1796, from Knox and Hamilton counties, and included most of the area that later became the Michigan Territory, as well as portions of what are now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and wisconsin.
They were successfully defended by the firm of Knox and Reed ( now Reed Smith LLP ), both partners of which ( Philander Knox and James Hay Reed ) were Club members.
The area which is now Knox was once part of the Scoresby Riding of the Shire of Berwick.
* Knox gelatin, a brand of gelatin now marketed by Kraft Foods

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