Word: klan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lapsley Greene Walker, 85, longtime editor of the famed Ochs-founded Chattanooga Times (1903-38), who crusaded against the Ku Klux Klan, for Repeal; in Chattanooga, Tenn...
...week's end had been formally arrested 16 times, once at each afternoon and evening showing. Challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance in a police-court show-down this week, Manager Allen will have on his side 1) the American Civil Liberties Union, 2) the Ku Klux Klan...
Democrat John Nance Garner, Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. ignored or declined invitations to sponsor her appearance. So did Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, presumably because he thinks Justices should shun partisan controversy. But Chief Justice & Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes accepted with pleasure, as did Associate Justice Hugo ("Klan") Black. For all who did not, New Dealer Ickes as Secretary of the Interior made things doubly uncomfortable by proffering the Emancipator for a backdrop...
...consecration of Atlanta, Ga.'s new, $350,000 Roman Catholic Co-Cathedral of Christ the King, erected on the site of the Ku Klux Klan's Imperial Palace, Most Rev. Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara, Bishop of the Savannah-Atlanta diocese, invited the Klan's Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans...
...Socratic questions. Asked by Senator Borah how the Civil Liberties Union stood on Communism, the Professor neatly replied, "So far as I know it has no attitude except to carry out its function of seeing that Communists get their Constitutional rights, along with Henry Ford, the Nazis and the Klan." Climax came when, pointing his finger at McCarran, Lawyer Frankfurter said slowly and succinctly...