Word: klan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven years ago Governor Ross Shaw Sterling of Texas, as publisher, combined his newly acquired Houston Dispatch (onetime Klan paper) with the venerable Houston Post and called the amalgam the Post-Dispatch. Shortly thereafter the famed St. Louis Post-Dispatch went to Federal Court in Houston and demanded that Publisher Sterling change the name of his paper. Throughout the Southwest, they said, the Post-Dispatch was understood to mean the St. Louis paper. The court denied the suit. Last week Publisher J . Josey, who acquired the Post-Dispatch from Governor Sterling two months ago. voluntarily shortened its name...
...books on various subjects, perhaps the bestknown of which is "Up From the City Streets" a biography of A1 Smith done in collaberation with Henry Moskowitz, Hapgood was minister to Denmark in the Wilson administration. He was a supporter of Eugene Debs, a formidable enemy of the Ku Klux Klan, and was the first chairman of the League of Free Nations Association, now the Foreign Policy Association...
...Democratic convention, went to Manhattan, "attracted so much attention that he could not move about the streets without drawing a crowd." One day he got tired of the press, "swept his mighty shoulders around and shouted," cleared the street. As soon as he heard about the Ku Klux Klan he joined it, was elected "Grand Wizard of the Invisible Empire." (Robert E. Lee had written re fusing the command, approving the idea but saying that his approval must remain "invisible.") In 1877 Forrest died, full of years, scars, memories of battles...
Died. Nathan Bedford Forrest, 58. retired Imperial Kligraph (national secretary) of the Ku Klux Klan, onetime Grand Dragon of the Georgia Klan, grandson of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest who was the first Grand Wizard of the original Klan when it was founded in 1867; of paralysis; in White Springs...
...nurse and married her. Polycarp Vaiden and A. Gray Lacefield came through the war unhurt. But before they got home again the Yankees had been there and had not left much to come back to. When the reconstructed Negroes got uppity Miltiades organized and headed the local Ku Klux Klan. Then Polycarp was shot from ambush. Marcia had little excuse left for not marrying A. Gray, but at the last minute was won by Jerry Catlin, a Southerner who had fought in the Northern army. With his family scattered, his property dwindling, his position gone, 01' Pap Vaiden went feebly...