Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, backed by the Ku Klux Klan, opposed by Republican Senator John W. Harreld, who is a friend of the Indian tribes and a mild denouncer of the Klan. Oklahoma is one of the few states where Klan political influence is more potent than a grimy-faced ragdoll...
...Indiana. Senator Reed heard a myriad of tales from a one-time Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan to the general effect that if Senator James E. Watson kept on being a good friend of the Klan he would some day be President of the U. S. Then he would appoint one William F. Zumbrunn (a man who "wines and dines" with Senators and their wives) as Ambassador to Mexico. Whereupon, Senator Watson called Senator Reed to his bedside in an Indianapolis hospital, informed him that it was all a great lie. Said the Senator from Indiana...
Colonel Carmi Thompson, personal investigator for President Coolidge in the Philippines (TIME, July 19 et seq.), known among Filipinos as "the Big White Friend of the Big White President," traveled last week 1,400 miles in and down anarchy-torn China while its War Lords desisted from their battles to let pass his all-steel, U. S. built "Blue Express...
...dynamiters could under no circumsances have been persuaded to blow up his train. They were spies of the Cantonese War Lord Chang Kaishek. Their intent was to cut off supplies from the Shanghai War Lord, Sun Chuan-feng. Well-informed of the movements of the Big White President's friend, they let him pass, mindful that his influence would bear directly upon whether the U. S. ever recognizes the Cantonese Government, recently extended by the conquests of Chang Kai-shek to include most of central China (TIME...
...president in 1928. They decided when the Mexican Chamber passed 199 to 7, last week, a bill permitting the re-election of former Mexican presidents, providing that one presidential term elapses between the end of their tenure of office and their reelection. This measure was rushed through by the friends of onetime President Alvaro Obregon. He and President Calles are the twin political idols of the anticlerical faction now in power. Presumably the bill passed by the Chamber last week will be railroaded through the Senate with equal ease. After that a few months of intensive and unscrupulous campaigning should...