Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lateran Cross awarded Mr. Hearst was a simple medal, not an award from Pope Pius XII. Vatican sources said that Hearst's name had been mentioned for an award, but had been turned down...
...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...
...truck driver. One night last June a gang of robed Klansmen broke into her house, accused her of "dancing nude on her front porch," renting rooms to unmarried couples, and selling whisky. They hit her a couple of times, then hustled her outside in her nightgown to watch a cross burn on her front lawn. ("It sure was pretty," testified a neighbor...
...Clark's audience would dream of putting money in a sugar jar. The women were delegates to the 27th annual convention of the Association of Bank Women, a good cross section of the 5,636 women bank executives...
Princeton's powerful cross-country team overran both Yale and Harvard yesterday afternoon at Franklin Park, Brookline, beating the Crimson, 11 to 41, and taking Yale...