Word: klan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced that he would have none to make "at least until I return to the United States." Meanwhile, in the U. S. the story published last week by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that Hugo Black had once been and still is a member of the nearly defunct Ku Klux Klan (TIME, Sept. 20), ceased to be a minor newspaper coup and became the prize political scandal of the year...
When a reporter asked the President to elaborate the last line, he reread the whole statement. Asked whether he had known of Justice Black's reputed Klan connections before nominating him to the Senate the President answered...
...President had not known that gossip credited Hugo Black with belonging to the Ku Klux Klan before nominating him to the Supreme Court, he could scarcely have failed to learn about it soon afterward. Before the Senate confirmed the nomination, the subject of Hugo Black's connection with the Klan was discussed on the floor. By last week, at least nine Senators who had voted for Hugo Black had hastily announced that they would not have done so if they had been assured that he was a member of the Klan. Senators Walsh and Copeland suggested that Mr. Black...
...story as soon as Hugo Black was nominated. For Reporter Sprigle-who affects Western sombreros, carries a silver-ringed cane and likes nothing better than a job of conscientious muckraking-the assignment was a treat. His first dispatches were routine stories which contained principally the information that the Klan had supported Hugo Black in the 1926 election. Original plan was to run the articles before Justice Black could be confirmed, but by the time Reporter Sprigle, aided by an unlimited expense account and private detectives, had got all the data he wanted, the less inquisitive Senate had long since done...
...realists remarked that the completeness of his findings ironically suggested that the association which so shocked the U. S. might have been revealed, precisely because it no longer existed. For disappointment at Hugo Black's failure to pay back his political obligations might have been a motive for Klan bigwigs, from whom alone Reporter Sprigle could apparently have got some of his more damaging information, to make public at the most inopportune moment his relation with...