Word: klan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grover Hall who broke the power of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama. Back in 1927, when both Alabama Senators were members of the Klan, and Governor Bibb Graves was inclined to ignore frequent floggings, Editor Hall tore into the Klan tooth & nail, ended by forcing Klansmen to unmask. For his attacks on racial and religious intolerance he won a Pulitzer Prize...
Mitsuru Toyama is the dictator of Japan's network of secret societies. With fronts as dignified as chapters of the D. A. R., these organizations operate behind the scenes with a brutal fanaticism which the Ku Klux Klan never equaled. The master society, which Toyama founded, is called the Black Dragon Society, significantly after Chinese ideographs for the Amur River, between Manchukuo and Russia. Affiliated with it in various ways are groups with such names as the Jimmu Society (after Japan's first Emperor), the National Foundation Society, the Spirited World Society, the Native Land Loving School...
...woman tourist spied a skinny old nag slumped neglectedly against a fence post near Charleston, wrote a beseeching letter to South Carolina's vigorous, Klan-cracking Governor Burnet Rhett Maybank. The Governor looked into the matter, offered a home for the aged horse at the Executive Mansion. Vowed he: "I love horses and everything connected with wild life. We'll never shoot him, I promise. Don't let the horse down...
Blunderbuss Americanism of Ku Klux Klan and vigilante society stamp is cropping out again--this time in the American Legion. With pages of Hearst and Scripps-Howard publicity, the veterans have begun a campaign to keep Browder and Ford off the ballots in the coming election. Their most recent success was yesterday's decision of the New York Supreme Court barring the Communists from that State's election lists. Already ten other states have done this; and in Pittsburgh forty-three Communist petition circulators, including a Harvard graduate, await trial on charges of fraud. The story in the Smoky City...
...after many a sleepless night, nerve-racked from continual bombardment -last week boarded an Atlantic Clipper at Lisbon, returned to the U. S. from the wars. They were: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Ray Sprigle, whose report on Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black's onetime Ku Klux Klan connections won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1938; Lloyd Allan Lehrbas of Associated Press, one of a lucky handful of newsmen who happened to be in Poland last year when Adolf Hitler's army moved in with them; Cineman Arthur Menken, who filmed the desolation left by Russian bombers...