Word: split
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the split in the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado (TIME, July 27), Carl S. Milliken, Colorado's Secretary of State, addressed a letter to the Klan formally resigning his membership. He did this, he declared, because the Klan had attempted to dictate to him the removal of a Deputy Secretary of State, a son-in-law of the Internal Revenue Collector in Denver who recently investigated the income-tax returns of the Colorado Klan's "Grand Dragon...
...Chrysler Corporation's insurance is to be handled by the Palmetto Fire Insurance Co. of Sumter, S. C. If it were split up among other companies, much of their present opposition would probably disappear...
...began to be developed as a serious competitor of railroad and traction companies, there has been a vivid interest in Wall Street in Mack Trucks, Inc. Earnings on the stock have been sensational, and prices for it have soared on the anticipation that soon a big "melon" would be split for the special benefit of the shareholders...
Scene. In the fastnesses of Tennessee, the quiet of dawn is split asunder by wailing screams from a steam siren. It is the Dayton sawmill, waking up villagers and farmers for miles around. From 5 until 6:30 the blasts continue. The hamlet and the fantastic cross between a circus and a holy war that is in progress there come slowly to life...
...through the surf put a gasoline launch, the Thelma, with a fishing party aboard. The beach crowd watched her careen on the breakers, herded to the water's edge when the boat capsized. Good swimmers ran splashing out, split the first wave with a dive, plowed off to the rescue...