Word: klannishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diego, Calif., and Phoenix, Ariz.-one Nominee for Vice President of the U. S. His name was Benjamin Gitlow. He was a Communist-six feet high, a 200-pounder with black hair, swart skin, bright black eyes, long fingers, very large feet, round shoulders. His friends suspected a Klannish plot, or strong-arm work by the American Legion, which had warned him not to visit Phoenix. William O'Brien, candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party for Governor of Arizona, began searching small-town jails through the Southwest. Suspicion pointed to El Paso, in the western corner of Texas...
...Clyde A. Walb, Klannish henchman of Candidate Watson's 1926 campaign for the Senate, was sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary for four years for conspiracy to violate the U. S. banking laws...
There are three Robinsons-Joseph Taylor Robinson, senior Senator from Arkansas, Democratic leader; Theodore Douglas Robinson, nephew of the late Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; and Arthur R. Robinson, whom discredited Governor Jackson of Indiana chose out of his Klannish entourage in 1925 to fill out the term of the late Samuel M. Ralston as Indiana's junior Senator...
...That on and after said date all Klansmen are forbidden to fraternize with or remain in Klannish Fidelity to any who shall thereafter wear upon his helmet a mask or visor...
...Representative Ralph E. Updike of Indianapolis went before the Senate Committee on Post Offices and objected. Senator Robinson of Indiana also helped obstruct Mr. Bryson's reappointment. Finally, last week, with Indiana's chief klansman behind bars for murder and the whole state in revolt at things Klannish, Senator Robinson dared obstruct no more. Two years late, the Senate confirmed the reappointment of able Postmaster Bryson of Indianapolis...