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Under the corporate laws of Georgia, a legal charter was obtained last August by the "benevolent and patriotic society" of Columbians. This disarming front shielded ominous trappings. The members wore Army khaki uniforms and startling insignia-a red thunderbolt. The Columbians also boasted a belligerent creed: "To create voting solidarity among all white American citizens. ... To encourage our people to think in terms of race, nation and faith...
...soldiers, sailors, and marines--without running into any Pollyannaisms consider themselves pretty fortunate. They're making the best of the present and are hopeful for the future. But dropping the past has been a little difficult, a stoutish ex-Wac confided. "I guess I've grown out of this khaki girdle...
Sargent Kennedy leaned back in his chair and scrutinized the khaki-clad private with deanlike eye. Watching the minutes of his furlough tick by, the private gave the dean a flshy, enlisted-man's stare--the attentive, ingratiating stare that might go with muddy boots or non-G.I. shoes...
Being populated for the most part by people who have long since overthrown the Army way of thinking, comparisons with the khaki way of life stop short at the exterior of the one-time hospital wards. The cavernous buildings have been segmented crosswise into five or six sections apiece, each unit varying from one to three bedrooms--the number of bedrooms determining the cost. Each home has, besides, a living room, a kitchen a bathroom, plenty of closet space, and two radiators in every room. Until you figure that the rooms are, on the average, somewhat smaller than the college...
While overconfident La Follette committeemen relaxed, energetic Joe stumped the state wearing his old khaki shirts. He shrewdly wooed conservative farmers with attacks on Washington bureaucrats, skirted the touchy foreign-policy issue, chided his opponent for a long absence from home. Backed by the regular G.O.P. organization he accused errant Progressives of trying to steal the Republican party...