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Word: klan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...directed to the ends of personal and local vengeance. Lakeview High School's athletic coach, Walter Bowland, a 200-lb. exmarine, had had a fight with an ex-student. Both the coach and John Burks, the school's principal, were at outs with the Klan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Protectors of Womanhood | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...night, when Bowland was away, 18 hooded Klan bullies set up a fiery cross in front of his house. Bowland's pretty wife, Bertha, who is pregnant, came out, kicked the burning brand over, and shouted at the gang: "Get out, you yellow cowards!" Ten days later Bowland came home after a basketball game and found his wife crouched behind a hedge, a shotgun at the ready, while another gang-unhooded this time-milled about the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Protectors of Womanhood | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Bowland called on Sheriff Jim Moreland of Catoosa County. The sheriff stroked his chin and said: "I'm just as scared of the Ku Klux Klan as you are." He advised Bowland to conduct himself in a manner more pleasing to the Klan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Protectors of Womanhood | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Reporter with a Hope. In his efforts to catch up, Editor McGill has worked hard to make a reputation as a "fighting Southern liberal" in the Ku Klux Klan's home town. In 1942, he was a big help in keeping Gene Talmadge out of the Governor's mansion and getting Ellis Arnall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Constitution Amended: Constitution Amended | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...this human right. TIME's tone toward Soviet Russia and her sphere of influence is now ironic, now reserved, now protesting, but not well wishing. Just as critical a stand is taken against the remaining utterances of fascism in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Germany and America (the Ku Klux Klan, etc.). TIME stands for religious freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

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