Evening star., 1934-09-05

One of the brand-new names begin
ming to figure in the long-range gos-
sip connected with the Republican
of Col. Frank Knox, editor and pub
Usher of the Chicago Daily News.
Through its columns Col. Knox has
waged hammer and tongs attack on
various phases of the New Deal in
articles which attracted national at
tention. He is hard hitting old-time
disciple of Theodore Roosevelt, dating
from Rough Riders days in Cuba, and
was an active supporter of Gen.
Leonard Woods campaign for the
Republican presidential nomination in
1920. Col. Knox is BoStonian by
birth, began his newspaper career in
Michigan and was identified with
journalism in New Hampshire until
he acquired control of the Chicago
Daily News three years ago. Knox
has many influential Republican
friends who think he is ideally
equipped to head the presidential
ticket on an anti-New Deal platform
two years hence. He is so years old.
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Col. Henry Breckenridge, independ-
ent candidate for the Senate in New
York State on his own Constitutional
party" ticket, is a close friend and
political associate of Senator Harry F..
Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia. Before
and at the 1882 Democratic conven-
ton in Chicago Col. Breckenridge was
one of the Virginian's principal boost
ers. Word reaching Washington indi-
Gates that Breckenridge is going to
make a special drive among college
men in New York State. Among
others, his fellow alumni of Princeton
and the Harvard Law School are or
ganizing actively on his behalf, and
seem confident that Franklin D.
Roosevelt's one-time associate in the
World War little cabinet" at Wash
ington will make dent in the cam
paign that may surprise both Repub-
lican and Democratic managers.
Breckenridge expects in particular to
rally to his support all those malcon-
tent conservative Democrats, like the
American Liberty League affiliates,
who cannot see eye to eye with current
trends in Washington. Another ele-
ment Of strength on which Breck-
inridge counts is Col Lindbergh's
friends. He has long been "Lindy's"
confidential legal and personal ad-
wiser.
Edward Keating, editor of Labor,
who has just aSSailed certain elements
within N. r. A. for "sabotaging" the
recovery movement, is a one-time
Democratic member of Congress from
colorado and still ranks as an ardent
party man with strong progressive
leanings. Labor is the official organ
of is railroad brotherhoodS. Under
Keating's editorship and management
since 1919 it has become one of the
most potent spokesmen of organized
labor in the country. 1t keeps a
close eye on the doings of Congress
from a substantial building of its own
on the eastern slope of Capitol Hill
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Our Latin American trade author
tiles are much interested in the move
ments and activities in South Amer
ica of Fritz Thyssen, Germany's FORE
most induStrialist and chairman of
the German steel trust, who is about
to explore the possibility of closer
commercial relations between the
Reich and Latin American countries
Thyssen is Hitler's principal financial
angel He is the owner of vast steel,
iron and coal properties in Rhineland
| and a member of the Nazi Federal
Council.
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without Gloves" is the suggestive
title of a new book about to come
from the pen Of Frank r. Kent, vice
president and political expert of the