Word: junes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accuser was Mrs. Hugh McDanal, 42, wife of a night 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...
...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 a ball game, and he had three witnesses to prove...
...Considered Request. "Unless [your] dollar earnings rise dramatically between now and June 1952 [when ECAid ceases]," warned Hoffman, "Europe's trade with the Americas will have to be balanced at so low a level that it will spell disaster for you and difficulties for us." Hoffman's plea for integration included a warning. Said he: "I do make this considered request: that you have ready early in 1950 a record of accomplishment and a program...
...Trustees of the four-year old College of New Jersey voted to purchases a bookcase in 1750. This is the first record in Princeton's annals of any provisions for the printed word. It was just some 198 years later, in June, 1948, that President Dodds set the last few pounds of the 5,200 tons of Foxcraft stone required in the Gothic exterior walls of the 86,000,000,000 Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library...
Sorrowful Jones. The boozy sentiment of Damon Runyon's Broadway, heavily spiked with Bob Hope gags (TIME, June...