Word: klan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Samuel Green, Grand Dragon of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, told the Georgia Tech Technique what nice people the Klansmen are, really: "We don't hate anybody, but most everybody hates us." For example, "It doesn't make me mad because I can't join B'nai B'rith, but it makes the Jews mad because they can't join us ... We don't hate the Jews. Some of my best friends . . . are Jews . .. And then there is the Knights of Columbus organization. They won't let me join their group either...
...Harlow B. Ross summed up the election results in one disgusted sentence: "There are just more damned fools in this country than there are intelligent people." ¶Leesburg, Fla. reported a heavy Negro vote. It was apparently stimulated by a motorized parade of 250 members of the Ku Klux Klan on election...
...equally concerned with the Ku Klux Klan, Gerald L. K. Smith, and the Communist Party," Ernst declared at the outset. "I'm frankly opposed to stealth and secrecy, with or without nightshirts, in so far as they disturb the free marketplace of ideas in which Americans will make informed distinctions...
...infusion of mahogany bark. When nothing worked, he shaved his pate and settled for three weeks in the Florida sun. Disguises were an old dodge to Reporter Sprigle, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1937) for uncovering Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black's past as a Ku Klux Klan member. Three years ago, elaborately roughed up as a black marketeer, he had exposed a meat-rationing scandal in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...
...their time, the Shelton gang had been responsible for scores of violent deaths. They were whiskey runners, saloon keepers and slot-machine operators. They fought the Ku Klux Klan, fought the law, bought up sheriffs. But mostly they battled a tough, boastful gangster named Charley Birger...