Word: klansman
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...chief, were indicted. Presently the desk sergeant on duty the night of the floggings fell, jumped or was pushed to his death from the window of a Tampa hospital. A onetime justice of the peace also at police headquarters that night died suddenly and mysteriously. A Tampa Ku Klux Klansman implicated in the case was declared a suicide, though his wife called it murder...
According to Reporter Sprigle, Klansman Black's resignation was filed but never accepted and after winning the nomination, which meant the election, he reaffirmed his loyalty to Klan principals at an Alabama meeting attended by Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans, was rewarded by a gold Klan card making him a life member...
...Ernest's home was correspondence to Virgil Harry Effinger of Lima, Ohio. The, newshawks found, is a ponderous, big-nosed salesman with a foghorn voice who quotes extensively from the Bible, addresses everyone as "Brother." Seated in his basement office, which contains a plaster statuet of a hooded klansman and framed pictures of Paul Revere and George Washington, Effinger neither admitted nor denied that he was the Legion's commander-in-chief. The 6,000,000 members, he stoutly asserted, did not believe in violence, worked solely for the furtherance of "Americanism...
Stumpster Bilbo, who stops at no forensic device, is a bad man to have for a political foe. In 1928 he delivered Mississippi to Al Smith 5-to-1, "me a Baptist, a dry and a Ku Klux Klansman," largely by this stratagem: In a Memphis burlesque theatre he announced that during the 1927 flood Herbert Hoover got off a train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just...