Word: ku
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their crusade against the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. Editor Willard Cole of the Whiteville News Reporter (circ. 5,007) and Editor Horace Carter of the Tabor City Tribune (circ. 1,500) won a Pulitzer Prize this year (TIME, May 11), the only one ever given to weekly papers. Last week Editor Cole was praised from another quarter for his journalistic enterprise. In the mail came an unsolicited letter from former Imperial Wizard Thomas L. Hamilton, who was sent to jail, along with 15 other Klansmen, as a result of the weeklies' crusade. Said Hamilton's letter...
Elgin's Marbles. The non-library part of the museum has, among other things, a painting by the 4th century Chinese artist Ku K'ai-chih and one of the world's best collections of Dürer woodcuts and drawings. Its antiquities from Ur and Nineveh are outstanding; its Egyptian collection includes the famed Rosetta stone. The most notable items are the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Parthenon in Athens and donated by Lord Elgin...
...come to know Senator McCarthy well, officially and personally. I view him as a friend and I believe he so views me. Certainly, he is a controversial man. He is earnest and he is honest. He has enemies. Whenever you attack subversives of any kind, Communists, Fascists, even the Ku Klux Klan, you are going to be the victim of the most extremely vicious criticism that can be made. I know. But sometimes a knock is a boost. When certain elements cease their attacks on me, I'll know I'm slipping...
...demanded that the committee give him a public hearing. It agreed, and last week Methodist Leader Oxnam vigorously attacked the committee members face to face during six long hours of verbal combat, before hundreds of applauding fellow churchmen. The bishop said the committee methods gave rise to a "new . . . Ku-Kluxism," and flatly denied any sympathy whatsoever with Communism. He also denied belonging to a good part of a long list of front organizations about which committee members questioned...
...churches freeing them from any obligation to contribute to Piedmont. From now on, without the churches' steady support, President Walter may have little to keep running on-only his dwindling tuitions, the Armstrong money and the resentment of many of his students, who recently planted a Ku-Klux-type cross on his lawn and set it aflame...