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...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...
...becoming clear that out of Oklahoma, as out of Africa, there comes ever something new. Having grown tired of raising broom corn, oil booms, and Klu Klux bands the bold Westerners have bitcired their belts another notch, sworn dutifully at the broiling sun and attacked that most revered of institutions the prohibition joke. Lest they continue to merit the reputation for over-hasty action, once gained by speed on the trigger and again confirmed by gubernatorial impeachments, the Oklahoma have, however, considerately buried their protest against this kind of humor in the body of a speech in defense of prohibition...