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...weary after many a sleepless night, nerve-racked from continual bombardment -last week boarded an Atlantic Clipper at Lisbon, returned to the U. S. from the wars. They were: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Ray Sprigle, whose report on Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black's onetime Ku Klux Klan connections won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1938; Lloyd Allan Lehrbas of Associated Press, one of a lucky handful of newsmen who happened to be in Poland last year when Adolf Hitler's army moved in with them; Cineman Arthur Menken, who filmed the desolation left by Russian...
...royal special careened from Bucharest toward the frontier of Yugoslavia, armed members of the Iron Guard (Ku Klux Rumanian organization) roughly asked the stationmaster whether the train would stop at Timisoara. "Yes, I swear it," he replied, but slyly managed to dot-dash from his station a warning to Carol II that his only chance was to run the gantlet of the Iron Guard...
Because the original Monmouth Park has long since been carved into house lots, Horseman Haskell & associates plan to buy tumble-down Elkwood Park, Monmouth's neighbor and chief competitor in the old days, since used at one time or another for auto racing, Ku Klux Klan rallies and county fairs. To its mile track they expect to add $1,200,000 worth of landscaping, grandstands and stables, make the new Monmouth worthy of its name when it opens next June...
...Bundsters and new friends, white-sheeted members of the Ku Klux Klan, this week held a joint rally at Camp Nordland, Andover, N.J.-cheered "Americanism," jeered newsmen, shouted "Heil Hitler," burned a fiery cross...
...kind of country in which the Ku Klux Klan loses and in which class arrogance on both sides of the fence is bad form. It has its poverty, but its freedom to discuss and to limit the rights of private property "gives even the most acutely underprivileged groups-Marx's proletariat-a sense that their case is not hopeless." It has its scandals and tragedies-Charley Cross, Emporia's leading banker, got his bank in difficulties in 1898 and rode to his farm on the edge of town to kill himself. "I wonder what he thought when...