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Dan Klein emailed me to say that Jacob Viner of the University of Chicago is also missing from the list of signatories.
Thank you, Jonathan, for bringing this fascinating list to our attention.
Although I found the names of Melvin Moses Knight (1887-1981) of the University of California and Bruce Winton Knight (b.1892) of Dartmouth College, I couldn't find their more famous brother, Frank Hyneman Knight (1885-1972) of the University of Chicago. I did a find for "Knight" and nothing turned up except his two brothers so I doubt he's lurking on the list with a different affiliation. Perhaps someone can throw some light on his absence from this list. Was he a protectionist, at least at that time? Or maybe he was sick and never signed the petition.