Word: klan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expose of Justicé Hugo Black's onetime membership in the Ku Klux Klan was a deliberate conspiracy. . . . Parties to the conspiracy were the Hearst stooge Paul Block [and others]. . . . The sensational stories carried the by-line of a Block reporter, but their real author was Frank Prince, onetime Hearst reporter and now operator of a private detective agency...
Origin of the Nazi movement in the U. S. antedates the Hitler regime by ten years. In 1923 the Teutonia Society, patterned vaguely on Klan principles, was the biggest of a dozen or so similar groups whose members gave aid to the National Socialist Party in Germany throughout the late 20's. In 1933 these groups were merged as "Friends of New Germany," run by Heinz Spanknobel, a Nazi party member. Herr Spanknobel, indicted by a New York Federal Grand Jury for failing to register as the agent of a foreign nation, speedily fled to Nazi Germany...
...itself. . . . Keep the public schools public." From New York University's soft-spoken Dean Ned Harland Dearborn came a warning that the proposal to subsidize parochial education had started a religious controversy which might not only jeopardize Federal aid but "cause the spirit of the Ku Klux Klan to ride again...
Died. Joseph Bradley David. 74, since 1916 judge of Cook County, Ill., Superior & Criminal Court benches; of heart disease; in Chicago. Bitter foe of Prohibition, easy divorce, the Ku Klux Klan, Judge David once tossed out of court a proposed injunction against fan dances. Said he: "Lots of people in this community would like to put pants on horses...
...resented President Roosevelt's choice of a successor to the retired Justice Van Devanter because the new appointee was (1 a Roman Catholic, 2 lacking in any previous judicial experience, 3 a New England conservative, 4 a prominent "Red-baiter," 5 a past member of the Ku Klux Klan...