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...months after the war, lanky, blue-eyed Cavin Darcy, heir to a big Texas cotton plantation, goes home with a Georgia bride, immediately becomes a leading Ku Klux Klan guerrilla and politician in the sacred cause of States' Rights. The main story covers the years when Reconstruction violence is at its height. Author Krey's historical background (from the planters' viewpoint) is well informed. But Cavin's leading part is woodenly dramatized. Although he rides with the Klan, is away for weeks on secret political missions, the reader catches him only when he has returned...
Reporting of the fact that Supreme Court Justice Hugo La Fayette Black was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan won Raymond Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...
Raymond Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won the award for distinguished reporting with his series exposing the one-time membership of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black in the Ku Klux Klan. For his Broadway success, "Our Town," the dramatic prize went to Thornton Wilder...
...expose of Justicé Hugo Black's onetime membership in the Ku Klux Klan was a deliberate conspiracy. . . . Parties to the conspiracy were the Hearst stooge Paul Block [and others]. . . . The sensational stories carried the by-line of a Block reporter, but their real author was Frank Prince, onetime Hearst reporter and now operator of a private detective agency...
...peculiar to itself. . . . Keep the public schools public." From New York University's soft-spoken Dean Ned Harland Dearborn came a warning that the proposal to subsidize parochial education had started a religious controversy which might not only jeopardize Federal aid but "cause the spirit of the Ku Klux Klan to ride again...