Word: klux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...final House debate on the Johnson measure was enlivened by undignified antics. Representative James A. Gallivan, Democrat of Massachusetts, denounced the Ku Klux influence back of the measure. Said he: "You seem to forget that only the other day your ancestors were alien, the sons of England, and France, Ireland and Scotland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and other lands. Wherever the immigrant has gone schools have sprung up, industries have flourished, trade has increased, wealth has multiplied, prosperity has bloomed and patriotism, peace, law, order, intelligence and happiness follow in his footsteps...
...school law was originally sponsored by the Scottish Rite Masons. In 1922, the Ku Klux Klan took it up, made it the chief issue of the elections, and put it on the statute books of the state by a vote of 106,996 to 93,349. The law required parents or guardians after Sept. 1, 1926, to send all children over 8 and under 16 to public schools for the entire school year. It was a blow direct at the Catholic parochial private school system...
Governor Walter M. Pierce, elected on the Ku Klux Klan platform, said the case would be appealed to the Supreme Court...
...answer is an answer, in politics. William G. McAdoo campaigning in Georgia, had just completed a speech at Macon. An inquiring Georgian rose and asked: "How do you stand on the Ku Klux Klan...