Word: klan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bolted the national ticket in 1928, Demo- crats last week nominated for the Senate John H. Bankhead, Jasper attorney, son of the late Senator John Hollis Bankhead, uncle of voluptuous, London-petted Actress Tallulah Bankhead. The defeated candidate: Frederick Ingate Thompson, Mobile publisher. Judge Benjamin Meek Miller, anti-Klan, won the regular Democratic nomination for Governor. Senator Heflin, who plans to run as an independent Senatorial candidate in November, urged his friends to keep away from the polls last week. The State's normal Democratic primary vote of over 200,000 was reduced to less than 150,000. Heffled...
...tree-shaded Marion, Ind., onetime stamping-ground of the Ku Klux Klan, three Negro boys last week were hurried to the Grant County gaol. One of them, Thomas Shipp, 18, confessed he had dragged Claude Deeter, 23, from an automobile parked in Marion's outskirts, shot him to death. Shipp's companion, Abe Smith, admitted attacking Deeter's fiancee, Mary Ball...
...Issue. Just as U. S. Republicans and Democrats stand broadly for much the same things, so do Canadian Conservatives and Liberals. There is a little ''religious issue" up in Saskatchewan (the Catholics claiming that Protestant Bennett is abetting the Canadian Ku Klux Klan) but this is scarcely of Dominion importance. Down east in Quebec there is the issue of "conscription." Canada had a Conservative government during the War. Its members forced conscription upon all Canada, against the bitter protests of Quebec. After the War, Quebeckers (who had been called "cowards" by their ancient Ontario enemies) turned Liberal and have stayed...
...famed as "AE." As greatly beloved as any living Irishman, Poet Russell had roused the furies by a pungent critique* of Ireland's secret and romantic brotherhoods as they exist today. A tough old patriot himself, he finds the brotherhoods flabby-muscled, fatheaded, sunk like the Ku Klux Klan in babbittry, bigotry. Wrote he: "The secret societies of a generation ago had for object the freedom of Ireland. There was good reason, too, for their being secret. "All small nationalties submerged in great empires tend to develop a subterranean political life. It is impossible to fight great battles openly...
...mere fine of $50," snapped the Division judge, "in a case of this sort is a travesty on justice. I sustain the original decision and increase the penalty by three months imprisonment. Canadian law will not tolerate Klan interference with the rights of Canada's Negro citizens...