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...next day the city was searching for the real roots of the trouble. Detroit had been warned only two weeks ago by R. J. Thomas, U.A.W.-C.I.O. president, that the Ku Klux Klan was fomenting trouble. (Nearly a year ago LIFE had warned: "Detroit is Dynamite...
...accustomed showmanship, Stokowski glamorized the great sacred composition. He cut Bach's music to slightly over half its length, reorchestrated many passages of Bach counterpoint, peopled the Metropolitan Opera stage with a bevy of hooded mimes, who prowled about a collection of ramps and platforms like Ku Klux Klansmen at a Konklave. The Saviour was represented by a vertical shaft of light whose symbolic feet were symbolically dried by the hair of Maria Magdalena (Lillian Gish...
...among much larger groups than Harvard's alumni. He was roundly damned for protesting the appointment of Louis D. Brandeis to the U.S. Supreme Court for "lack of judicial temperament," for proposing a quota for Jewish students at Harvard as an anti-anti-Semitic move during the Ku Klux rampage of 1922, for barring Negroes from freshman dormitories. He was internationally damned for his part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In 1927 at the request of Massachusetts' worried Governor Alvan T. Fuller, LowelLand two others* reviewed the trial of the two anarchists, declared them fairly judged...
From that incident until the final reel, Native Land seldom lets down. With a fine feeling for suspense and violence, it re-enacts the vigilante pursuit (in 1936) and murder of a pair of Arkansas sharecroppers who wanted a trivial raise, the Ku-Klux flogging of Joseph Shoemaker and two companions (in 1935, on a road north of Tampa, Fla.) for almost defeating a Klansman in the city elections, the untidy tale of a company labor...
...Alabama (1927-31; 1935-39); of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. He was the only Alabama Governor ever to serve two full terms, was preparing, when he died, to campaign for a third. He was nicknamed "the Klan Governor" when he first took office, later dropped his Ku Klux membership. When ex-Klansman Senator Hugo Black went to the Supreme Court bench in 1937, Graves appointed his wife to fill the vacancy...