Word: klux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corn at country meetings, singing and playing the fiddle (Bile Them Cabbages Down), recites inspirational poetry (God Give Us Men), advocates old-age pensions for 60-year-olds. Republicans are circulating a letter written by Byrd in 1946 in which he mentioned membership in-and praise for-the Ku Klux Klan, and Byrd neither denies it nor apologizes...
...classes with whites-two in Charlotte, four in Winston-Salem. five in Greensboro-in Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges' plan to permit a little integration in order to stave off a lot. Last week, unlike last year, there was little violence. In Winston-Salem a couple of Ku Klux crosses were burned on a high school lawn, 200 out of 600 white students were transferred out of an integrated elementary school at parents' requests. One measure of North Carolina's small steps: Rabble-Rouser John Kasper of New Jersey got booed and heckled in Charlotte, saw his audience...
Swope started the World's famous "op. ed.," a page facing the editorials, and made it a showcase for a distinguished set of columnists: Heywood Broun, Franklin P. Adams, Alexander Woollcott, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor. He directed the investigations of the Ku-Klux Klan and peonage on Southern plantations that won the World Pulitzer Prizes. He took a proprietary interest in the news: "Who's covering my murder trial? Who's covering my snowstorm?" He told reporters: "Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences...
...politics that has been rife in the South since Little Rock. Items: EURJ In the runoff primary for Governor, Attorney General John Patterson, 36, piled up a record vote to defeat Circuit Judge George Wallace by 64,388 even after Patterson had been unmasked as the favorite of Ku Klux Klan leaders and had made a public appeal for the votes of Klansmen. Opponent Wallace, himself an unhooded knight of white supremacy, first attacked Patterson for his K.K.K. ties, then shut up when he saw that the charge was backfiring in Patterson's favor. More important than the Klan...
...primary three weeks ago. His 34,000 plurality in a field of 14, segregationists all. made him odds-on favorite to win the June 3 runoff for Democratic nomination, which means election. Last week one powerful reason came to light: Patterson is the candidate of the Ku Klux Klan. now making its boldest bid for public power and approval since the corn-pone days...