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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month in Lakeview, Ga., men of the same mental stamp as those who made up Hitler's Sturmabteilung, the local Ku Klux Klan, were attempting the same sort of intimidation. You quote [TIME, Feb. 16] the law enforcement officer of the county, Sheriff Jim Moreland, as saying: "I'm just as scared of the Ku Klux Klan as you are." Further, he advised the victim to conduct himself in a manner more pleasing to the Klan. Shades of the Munich Brown House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...night last week, in the little east Georgia town of Swainsboro, 189 hooded and bed-sheeted Ku Klux Klansmen burned a ten-foot cross on the lawn of the Emanuel County Courthouse. Their leader klarioned: "We rededicate our lives to the protection of white womanhood...

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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