Word: klansman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas (for a fashion description of opening night at the Metropolitan Opera), as 1940's best newshens. Because he delivered "two notable decisions freeing Negroes who had, under torture, confessed to crimes," the name of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, onetime Klansman, was placed on the Honor Roll of Race Relations for 1940. (So was Jack Benny's, because he gave his Negro co-comedian "Rochester" roles not humiliating to the Negro race.) Self-made, sloganeering Henry T. Ewald, president of Detroit's great Campbell-Ewald agency, got 1940"s gold medal for a distinguished career...
...logical playmate for Fascist Pelley was Carl Losey. He joined Indiana's Ku Klux Klan in its heyday in 1923. Klansman Losey sported the first bulletproof vest in Indiana, served as a personal bodyguard for Imperial Grand Dragon David Curtis Stephenson, who was convicted of second-degree murder at Noblesville in 1925, is now serving a life term in the penitentiary. Fiftyish Carl Losey looks ten years younger, always carries a heavy-calibre revolver. Graduate of no law school, he is a member of the Indiana...