Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Vito Marcantonio had been hopping about on the fringes of the fray, on one occasion with his good friend, Henry Wallace. He cried that the assessed valuation of rich men's buildings was being reduced, that recipients of city welfare were about to be starved, that vested interests...
The trial was probably the biggest prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan since reconstruction days. In Birmingham, Ala., 18 men had been indicted for the brutal wave of floggings, cross-burnings and intimidation that swept Alabama's hill country last summer.
On the Front Porch. First defendant to go to trial was self-assured, balding Coleman A. ("Brownie") Lollar. Lollar operated a scuttle-sized coal mine. He had also been a special deputy sherriff.
"I'll Take Four." But Brownie was confident. He admitted that he had once been a member of the K.K.K., but swore that he had resigned. When was that? Well, the end of June (three weeks after the McDanal raid). Anyway, the night of the raid he was at...
The court agreed. In a chatty decision written by 77-year-old Judge Learned Hand, the court gently deplored Schmidt's "moment of what may have been unnecessary frankness." But "recent investigations . . . have disclosed-what few people would have doubted in any event-that his practice is far from...