Word: klan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Question: "Senator, are you ... a member of the Ku Klux Klan...
...nearly four years of wearing the laundered government of chubby Governor Ellis Arnall (who cannot succeed himself under state law), she had gone back to his skinny, wild-eyed predecessor, 61-year-old ex-Governor Eugene Talmadge. Talmadge's once discarded political union suit still smelled of demagoguery, Klan support and white supremacy. But it felt easy in the seat...
Hiram W. Evans, big-time Georgia contractor and onetime Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, got a bill from the Treasury for $257,763.27 in back taxes...
Drew Pearson, brash breathless Washington columnist, starred in the publicity trick of the week. In the New York Times his radio sponsor (the Frank H. Lee Co.) ran a full-page ad (cost: $4,800) announcing that "Pearson has attacked [the Ku Klux Klan] in radio broadcasts and newspaper columns. He was immediately . . . threatened with injury to life and limb should he set foot in [Georgia]. . . Mr. Pearson will deliver this Sunday's broadcast from the steps of the State capitol in Atlanta. . . . Mr. Pearson's life [has been insured] for One Million Dollars for the benefit...
...Drew Pearson seems to know a lot more than I do about me," he said. "I am not a member of the Klan, never have been and don't ever expect...