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Word: klan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atlanta, before the war, was headquarters for a profitable national business in hocus-pocus for race-prejudiced joiners: the Ku Klux Klan. Since the war, it has been no secret in Georgia that the Klan was trying to come back in a big way. In the past eight months there have been cross-burnings atop Stone Mountain. But secrecy is a part of the Klan's appeal-and the Kluxers kept their affairs to themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Again, the Klan | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Died. Thomas Dixon, 82, unreconstructed Southern novelist; in Raleigh, N.C. His best-known work, The Clans man, an idealization of the original Ku Klux Klan as the South's knights in shining armor, became the first million-dollar movie (The Birth of a Nation, 1915). Lawyer, politician, Baptist minister, son of a Klan founder, he capitalized on race prejudice, harped loud & long on white ("Aryan") supremacy, sold over 5,000,000 copies of his 20 novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 15, 1946 | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...shared respect. The conditions: economic balance (poverty leads to despotism) and enlightenment. One flaw in Webster's abstract definitions: areas of despotism can exist in a democracy, and he doesn't say so. The film shows such areas of despotism within U.S. democracy as the Ku Klux Klan, a resort accepting only a "selected" (Christian) clientele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Definitions | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Dealey gave Dallas the kind of personal journalism that Texans cottoned to. The News took on the powerful Ku Klux Klan in a death battle, and won. Dealey crusaded against gambling, turned down a fortune in oil stock advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dealey of Dallas | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...photograph of Evangeline Booth did not do her credit, and ED. said he would be happy to receive a better one. As usual, cantankerous Upton Sinclair was present-denying that he was, as TIME had said, a Bolshevik. He put TIME to bed with the Ku Klux Klan for seeming to support the candidacy of "the Klan Kandidate Koolidge." ED. allowed that the charge was baseless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

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