Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine years ago a man named Julian La Rose Harris went to Columbus, Ga. With him went his wife, Julia Collier Harris, and together they bought controlling shares of a newspaper, the Enquirer-Sun. All Columbians knew about the Harrises was that he was a son of Author Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus) Harris, that he was a newspaperman who was once managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution, more recently editor of the Paris Herald; that she was his wife. Columbians did not care to know much more, because the Enquirer-Sun was not much of a newspaper to bother about...
Quietly, the slightly plump, round-faced Mr. Harris and the pretty, brown-haired Mrs. Harris went to work. He composed the editorials. She reviewed books, edited the women's pages, wrote articles. Before long Columbus citizens started to wonder what kind of persons these Harrises really were. Their newspaper was openly fighting the Ku Klux Klan. It was fighting intolerance. It was criticizing racial prejudices. These are the kind of editorials Columbians started to read...
...Harris fame came no fortune. The open Enquirer-Sun got few new subscribers, sometimes lost many old ones. One thousand subscriptions were cancelled after the initial Klan-basting. Fighting a fight where other Georgia papers feared to follow, the Enquirer-Sun never grew above 7,000 circulation, often went to many less. Mr. & Mrs. Harris stood alone...
...given a combination radio-phonograph, said to be valued at $400. When the speeches were over they filed up to the platform, spoke their names into a microphone, shook hands with all of the Committee except Col. Lindbergh who stood back and nodded politely. When Candidate Reid went up there was loud applause from proud Jerseyans...
Still ignorant of the winner, the "49ers" went to Coney Island that night, and then on a sight-seeing trip through Manhattan. The Edison staff, cautious gentlemen, advised leaving watches at home and taking no more than...