Word: klu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge that he be allowed to take the place of Warren T. McCray. Later both Indiana Senators asked that a parole be given the onetime Governor. Public sympathy mounted even higher when it was hinted that when indicted the Governor had refused a Klu Klux Klan offer of immunity in exchange for naming a certain candidate for public prosecutor; that he had named instead William H. Remy who then acted in the Governor's prosecution. This time public sympathy had effect; last week onetime (1921-24) Governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray, now convict 17746 in the Atlanta...
...Grand Dragon & Mrs. W. L. Smith of the Indiana Klu Klux Klan, an apology for publishing (with many another periodical) announcement that Mrs. Smith (the whilom Katharine Kalbig) is a Roman Catholic (TIME, May 16). Mrs. Smith's latest statement: "I am not a Catholic but on the contrary have been baptized in the Baptist Church, of which I am a devout believer and an active member and attendant...
Married. W. Lee Smith, 32, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klu Klux Klan; to Katharine Halbig, 24; secretly, after eloping; at Louisville, Ill. Indiana Klansmen, discovering last week that the bride is a Roman Catholic, were reported to be "in a rage...
...went to the Senate for final action. A favorable vote in the House had been a foregone conclusion. None the less the greater part of a week was spent in debate. From the line up of men from certain sections against the measure, some observers suspected that the Klu Klux Klan was bringing pressure to bear against the settlement...
Sirs: It is something of a luxury to catch TIME a century behind the times, as it certainly is when it refers (Sept. 21 issue) to the Phi Beta Kappa as a secret. The society stopped klu-klukking a long time ago. Phi Beta Kappa (not P. B. K., for the character P is the Greek R) is transliterated Philosophia Biou Kubernetes, meaning "Philosophy is the guide of Me , this is not the Society's name, which I represented by the S. P. (Societas Philosophorum) on the keys...