Word: klan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today are the wisest, the most hopeful and the most moral that the world ever saw." . . . My difficulties in Denver, as is well known (see The Dangerous Life, published by Horace Liveright- 1931, for all details) were due to my rights against the bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan when it rose to power there in 1924 and our battles with the privileged interests and corrupt corporate powers that I wrote about in the Beast and the Jungle stories. These powers have circulated many lying stories about me and viciously misrepresented my views on what is popularly known (with much...
...converted Wall Street to the Federal Reserve. Only Mr. McAdoo himself seems to recall that it was no less a person than the elder Morgan who, at the outbreak of War in 1914, begged his advice on closing the Stock Exchange. All the East remembers is the Ku Klux Klan and the bad taste left by the 1924 convention. Time and distance have wilted the McAdoo reputation in Wall Street. Today he is thought of rather as a lanky, uncouth Westerner, flapping a cowboy hat, who backed "that wild man Garner" for the Presidency and then traded...
...spite of their tempestuous campaign and the assistance given them by the Junker Cabinet, the Hitlerites polled almost exactly the same number of votes that they did in the April presidential election. German observers have com pared the growth of Hitlerism to the growth of the Ku Klux Klan in the U. S. saying that its appeal was irresistible to a certain class of citizens - in the case of Germany, the conservative, impoverished lower middle class. Thirteen million Ger mans voted for Adolf Hitler in April. That, observers felt, was nearly 100% of the class. Since then Naziism has neither...
Apparently "suffering illusions of grandeur; for instance the idea of leading the country back to prosperity," Edward Young Clarke, onetime Imperial Kleagle and chief organizer of the Ku Klux Klan, was committed to Chicago Psychopathic Hospital for examination. His commitment was requested by the executive board of Esskaye Inc., an organization founded by Promoter Clarke for which he proposed to enlist 2,000,000 members at $100 membership fees. Said Hospital Superintendent Francis J. Gerty six days later: "I find no evidence of psychosis or mental disease. This opinion is not official, and it will be necessary for several other...
...mostly with other Southern Democrats, cuts no figure in Washington's formal society. His home is at Ozark, Ala. where, a power in local Democracy, he is in considerable demand as a public speaker. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, he fought down the Ku Klux Klan when it sprouted intolerantly in his district, had the courage in 1928 to stump for Alfred Emanuel Smith when James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin was trying to turn the State over to the Hoovercrats. He helped to oust Heflin...