Word: klansman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William M. Rogers, Indiana Klansman, had sworn before a Senate committee that upon a trip to Washington in 1926 he had applied to Senator Watson for assistance in getting a Government job, that Senator Watson had proudly exhibited a Klan imperial passport, had claimed high membership in the order...
...affidavit repudiating his claim, that Senator Watson was a Klansman was prepared and, when Rogers refused to sign it, his name was clumsily forged to it. For this forgery one man has already been sent to prison. Plaintiff Rogers now seeks settlement from the rest who, he believes, tried to discredit...
...record. . . . "He, with all his intelligence, with all his honesty, with all his courage-seems to have left his high qualities in escrow with Charles Murphy [oldtime Tammany Boss] when he went to Albany and there made a Tammany record on the saloon, the gambler and the prostitute. "No Klansman in a boob legislature, cringing before a Kleagle or a Wizard, was more subservient to the crack of the whip than was Al Smith-ambitious and effective and smart as chain lightning-in the Legislature when it came to a vote to protect the saloon, to shield the tout...
...Klansman Milstead said it. TIME, by its attitude towards the Klan, loses one more subscriber...
TIME infers the membership of the Klan to be weak-minded. If a brilliant war record in command of 1,000 men, a salary of $10,000 and a national reputation in his profession indicates weakness of mind, this Klansman accepts the inference...