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Larry is a "progressive student." He has found out that father is not only an atomic scientist but a warmonger with Ku Klux Klan connections. Sample dialogue...
Larry: Wouldn't it interest you that MacFarren has organized a secret Ku Klux group...
When he got back to Dallas, he was offered a job by a News editor who said: "You can cover City Hall. It's a Ku Klux Klan administration and we are an anti-Klan paper. Now do you want it?" Rosenfield said yes, made good at the job and later got the chance to be amusements editor. When one of his first reviews praised a local production of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, Publisher George Bannerman Dealey called him on the carpet for saying nice things of a play about a prostitute. Rosenfield convinced Dealey...
...cooperating" with the town police Charlie had done well in Myrtle Beach ever since 1937. But recently, members of the Ku Klux Klan began muttering about him; they swore his good-looking, light-skinned Negro wife, Sarah, was white, and that white women were entertaining at his place...
Some hint of the darkening skies ahead can be seen in a Ku Klux cross burning, a race riot spilling along a city street, the scarred masonry of the J. P. Morgan & Co. building after the Wall Street explosion of an anarchist bomb. But The Golden Twenties mostly concentrates on the high, wide & handsome aspects of the Jazz Age-Red Grange swivel-hipping toward the goal line, Dempsey and Firpo in the ring, Babe Ruth putting the ball and ball game away with a long clout to right field. The nation, turning from dance marathons and speakeasies, held its breath...