Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Klux Klan tradition, have emigrated to Detroit in search of unskilled factory employment. To uphold "Protestantism, Americanism and Womanhood" and, as a sideline, to establish a mutual assistance group to find members jobs, a number of them founded the Black Legion in 1933. The organization burgeoned. No man could apply for membership, but if sponsored by friends, was enticed to a meeting. There, with a revolver at his heart, he was permitted to declare his willingness to "be torn limb from limb and scattered to the carrion" if he betrayed a word of society secrets. After swearing to support...
Last week Censor Wilkinson was shown the March of Time's eighth British edition. What chiefly caught his attention were the 651 feet which traced the course of His Majesty's Government's attempt to keep Italy out of Ethiopia and uphold the League of Nations as an instrument for international peace. Censor Wilkinson did not object to a shot of the British Home Fleet entering the Mediterranean, but he did object to shots of British troopships going to the same place and to the Voice of Time's announcement: "British troops follow the fleet...
...this stirring of the black pot of race feeling was taken when copies of the Georgia Woman's World were placed on the chair of every delegate to the convention of anti-Roosevelt "Goober Democrats," called by Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge and the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution in Macon last winter (TIME, Feb. 10). Embellished with most extant photographs of Roosevelts & Negroes, this shoddy sheet shrilled...
Last week Senator Hugo Lafayette Black chose to give this whole delicate question a public airing in his Senate Lobby Investigating Committee.* Up for investigation was John Henry Kirby's Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution. First witness was fat, freckled old John Henry Kirby, Texas oil and lumber man, who quickly revealed that the right-hand man who really knew the inner workings of his organization was one Vance Muse. A big, muscular, loose-jointed Texan with thick brown hair and a scar on his cheek, Mr. Muse swung up to the witness chair. Senator Black told...
...Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. The du Fonts exceeded all others in the size and distribution of their gifts. The Liberty League got $10,000 from Brother Lammot, $86,750 from Brother Irenee; the Crusaders got $1,000 from Lammot, $10,000 from Irenee; the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution got $3,000 from Lammot, $50 from Irenee. Irenee gave $1,400 to the Minute Men and Women of Today. Lammot gave $5,000 to the Farmers' Independence Council...