Word: klan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dilling looked coldly at her codefendant, peppery Mrs. Lois de Lafayette ("T.N.T.") Washburn, who favored delighted photographers with a stiff-armed Nazi salute. Florid, convivial Edward James Smythe, onetime speaker at Bund and Ku Klux Klan rallies, held up proceedings for two days while FBI agents were sent to fetch him, spluttering indignantly, from a fishing trip near the Canadian border. There were also George Deatherage, founder of the Knights of the White Camellia; Howard Victor Broenstrupp, alias the Duke of St. Saba, alias Count Cherep-Spiridovich, etc. Nine of the defendants were already interned or in jail. They arrived...
...Congressman was to vote (after prayer) for war with Germany. His next was to join the Army, as a captain. This time the Armistice thwarted his ambition to fight. He was re-elected regularly to the House until 1928, when he campaigned courageously against the Ku Klux Klan and for Al Smith, and went to the Senate. He became Foreign Relations chairman...
...minority group has its false leaders. This merely shakes the tree instead of getting at the roots." Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The country has been informed of certain factors that Governor Kelly's committee hasn't deigned to mention: that the old, discredited Ku Klux Klan is operating in Detroit; that wartime industry has brought to the city numerous white workers from the South who have deep racial feelings; that housing conditions are bad; that Detroit is a fertile field for crackpots and agitators of all kinds, like the sinister Gerald L. K. Smith . . . that...
...From Edward James Smythe, Klan and Bund go-between, he learned Smythe's candidates for the "nationalist cabinet" of tomorrow: Secretary of the Treasury, Father Coughlin; Secretary of the Navy, Jacob Thorkelson; Secretary of State, Senator Burton K. Wheeler; Secretary of Public Health & Morals, Representative Clare Hoffman...
...next day the city was searching for the real roots of the trouble. Detroit had been warned only two weeks ago by R. J. Thomas, U.A.W.-C.I.O. president, that the Ku Klux Klan was fomenting trouble. (Nearly a year ago LIFE had warned: "Detroit is Dynamite...