Word: klansman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That on and after midnight of February twenty-second, year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty eight, no mask or visor shall be upon the helmet of the regalia of any Klansman. It shall therefore be unlawful for any Klansman to wear any mask or visor as part of his regalia, and each Klansman . . . shall . . . become a member of the Knights of the Great Forest...
...edict" is not quite an accurate index of Wizard Evans' mental calibre, for with the edict went a rider. Wizard Evans, who gained his knowledge of human nature as a dentist, had invented the "Knights of the Forest" as a painless method of extracting $1 from each & every Klansman. Salaries had to be paid, and it would have been unwise to levy an unembellished assessment. The "Knights of the Forest," therefore, constituted an obligatory degree palliated by the following ritual...
...Trial. Governor Jackson opened the trial last week with a plea of not guilty. Then followed the troublesome task of selecting the jurors. Prosecutor Remy wanted to make sure no Klansman was chosen. The defense objected to barbers, because barbers have a grievance against Governor Jackson for pocket vetoing a barbers' license bill. Specimen testimonies of rejected jurors...
...Bryson of Indianapolis expired two years ago and President Coolidge reappointed him, 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...
Fort Worth was top excited a community for a fair trial of Evangelist Norris. So venue was changed to Austin, where the murder trial ended last week. The jury consisted of a onetime sheriff, merchants, clerks, farmers, laborers. None was known to be a Klansman or a Catholic. All were wary gentlemen, who heard Prosecutor William McLean sneer at Evangelist Norris as a "pistol-packing parson"; cry: "There has been a frame-up in this case. Norris had murder in his heart and wanted an excuse to kill Chipps, and said something to make him turn, and then pumped...