Word: klux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chums mostly with other Southern Democrats, cuts no figure in Washington's formal society. His home is at Ozark, Ala. where, a power in local Democracy, he is in considerable demand as a public speaker. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, he fought down the Ku Klux Klan when it sprouted intolerantly in his district, had the courage in 1928 to stump for Alfred Emanuel Smith when James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin was trying to turn the State over to the Hoovercrats. He helped to oust Heflin...
Died. George Curry, 70, last Territorial Governor of New Mexico and its onetime Congressman (1911-13); in Hillsboro, N. Mex. After his father was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen in Louisiana, he went to work on a cattle ranch in New Mexico, where also was employed onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall. Congressman Curry later punched cows on Secretary Fall's ranch. After the demobilization of the Rough Riders, Curry went to the Philippines with a volunteer regiment, became first civil governor of the Province of Ambose Camarine...
...numerous books on various subjects, perhaps the bestknown of which is "Up From the City Streets" a biography of A1 Smith done in collaberation with Henry Moskowitz, Hapgood was minister to Denmark in the Wilson administration. He was a supporter of Eugene Debs, a formidable enemy of the Ku Klux Klan, and was the first chairman of the League of Free Nations Association, now the Foreign Policy Association...
There exist several sorts of Mexican Ku Klux Klans. One of them is the Comite Nacionalista Anti-China de la Costa Occidental, known as the Anti-Chinese Society. This society resorted to an old law passed by the Sonora Legislature in 1919, providing that all industrial and mercantile establishments must employ 80% Mexicans. In March 1931 this law was amended to prevent the exclusion of naturalized Chinese clerks anxious to evade the law, but despite its severity no serious attempt was made to enforce it until last June...
...post-war Democratic convention, went to Manhattan, "attracted so much attention that he could not move about the streets without drawing a crowd." One day he got tired of the press, "swept his mighty shoulders around and shouted," cleared the street. As soon as he heard about the Ku Klux Klan he joined it, was elected "Grand Wizard of the Invisible Empire." (Robert E. Lee had written re fusing the command, approving the idea but saying that his approval must remain "invisible.") In 1877 Forrest died, full of years, scars, memories of battles...