Word: klan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When news that Associate Justice Hugo Black had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan appeared a month ago, the President's only comment was that he would have nothing to say until Justice Black returned from Europe. Last fortnight when Justice Black was addressing some 50,000,000 other U. S. citizens, the President was pointedly riding in an open car (without radio), stopping to exchange small talk with a U. S. Army officer at the gateway to Fort Lewis near Tacoma. Last week, in Chicago, Franklin Roosevelt drove through cheering lines of thousands of Chicagoans...
Seen blazing on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Jarvis Street last night was the flery cross of the Ku Klux Klan. Polico and fire departments were notified, and one fire engine soon arrived to quell the flames. The Klaumen, however, had vanished...
...Associate Justice Black hoped by ending his discussion of his membership in the Klan last week to end the U. S. discussion of it, he was sorely disappointed. What followed his speech was a clamor fully matching the uproar that had preceded it. Except in the South newspapers almost without exception found it totally unsatisfactory...
...With little of the understanding of or co-operation toward the press which characterized him when he was making glowing headlines far himself as the Senate's Great Investigator, Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black, whom newspaper investigation had just revealed as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. was slipping home from Europe as quietly as possible on the Baltimore Mail Liner City of Norfolk instead of sailing into New York Harbor on the United States Liner Manhattan as he had previously planned...
Twelve days earlier in London, Mr. Justice Black had snapped at a Hearst reporter who had pressed him for a statement on his Klan affiliation "I don't see you! I don't know you! And I don't answer you!" But as he faced no less than 100 newshawks who swarmed outside the City of Norfolk's, Cabin 18, the newest member of the Supreme Court was affability itself. Addressing Jesse Frederick Essary, Baltimore Sun man who is Doyen of the Washington press corps, as "Fred," he drew him into the cabin, consulted with...