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Died. George R. Dale, 69, Indiana publisher & politician; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Muncie, Ind. In 1921 he founded the Muncie Post-Democrat, declared war on the Ku Klux Klan. Hoodlums stoned him, slugged him, smashed his presses, forced him to print his newspaper outside the State. In 1925, indicted for bootlegging, Editor Dale was sentenced to jail by a judge he had attacked, claimed he had been framed. Newspapers, led by the late New York World, rushed to his defense, carried his case to the U. S. Supreme Court where it was dismissed on a technicality. In 1932, after three...
...thing is pathetic when you consider the number of good people who pay in their nickles, quarters, and dollars to a concern that gives no account of what eventually becomes of the money. It must be as remunerative as the Ku Klux Klan for somebody...
Fish on the Steeple is laid in a little town, 60 miles west of Nashville, that has 14 street lights, four churches, a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, a large number of local drug addicts, bootleggers, bad girls, small-town eccentrics. Every few years its inhabitants burn down part of the town for the insurance. Central character is Shackle Redmon, tall, 17-year-old, dirty-faced boy who worked in his father's brickyard, occasionally got into knock-down fights with the old man, fell violently in love with the village heiress. Dorothy Hopper had been called "Pete...
...five-man primary for the Underwood seat. Without any prominent support, he put on a wrinkled suit, climbed into a Model-T Ford, stumped the State, sleeping with any farmer who would put him up, speaking at every crossroads store, saying the right words to win Ku Klux Klan support. That year, a low in Alabama politics, Ku Kluxers helped put Hugo Black in the U. S. Senate...
Georgia, picked up the moribund Enquirer-Sun in Columbus. For the next ten years he and his wife had the time of their lives, baiting Ku Klux Klansmen, lynchers, the great Evolution trial. In 1926 he got the Pulitzer Prize for "most disinterested and meritorious public service" from Northerners but in 1930 he lost his paper to old-line Southerners. A financial failure, he had, however, attracted the respectful notice of U. S. liberals, of his old friends on the Atlanta Constitution and of the far-seeing New York Times. Contributing to the latter, he went back to work...