Word: kail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ferocity that would be impossible in the more homogenized U.S. of 1960. He was referred to as "Alcohol) Smith." Widely circulated stories reported him so drunk at public functions that cronies had to support him to keep him from falling down. The Ku Klux Klan issued a "Klarion Kail for a Krusade" against him, attacked him repeatedly in the Klan publication, Fellowship Forum. A typical Forum cartoon showed what a Cabinet meeting would be like if Smith got elected: the Pope and a dozen fat priests sitting happily around the table, with Smith, in bellboy livery, serving them liquor...