Word: klux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--Four prominent Negro spokesmen demanded tonight that the 80th Congress refuse to seat Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., in January because of his acknowledged membership in the Ku Klux Klan and his efforts to block Negro suffrage in the South...
Question: "Senator, are you ... a member of the Ku Klux Klan...
Bilbo: "I am a member of the Ku Klux Klan No. 40, called Bilbo, Bilbo Klan No. 40, Mississippi. I attended one meeting and have not attended it since...
Bilbo: "No man can ever leave the Klan. . . . Once a Ku Klux, always a Ku Klux...
Drew Pearson, brash breathless Washington columnist, starred in the publicity trick of the week. In the New York Times his radio sponsor (the Frank H. Lee Co.) ran a full-page ad (cost: $4,800) announcing that "Pearson has attacked [the Ku Klux Klan] in radio broadcasts and newspaper columns. He was immediately . . . threatened with injury to life and limb should he set foot in [Georgia]. . . Mr. Pearson will deliver this Sunday's broadcast from the steps of the State capitol in Atlanta. . . . Mr. Pearson's life [has been insured] for One Million Dollars for the benefit...