Word: klux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first act as Congressman was to vote (after prayer) for war with Germany. His next was to join the Army, as a captain. This time the Armistice thwarted his ambition to fight. He was re-elected regularly to the House until 1928, when he campaigned courageously against the Ku Klux Klan and for Al Smith, and went to the Senate. He became Foreign Relations chairman...
...every minority group has its false leaders. This merely shakes the tree instead of getting at the roots." Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The country has been informed of certain factors that Governor Kelly's committee hasn't deigned to mention: that the old, discredited Ku Klux Klan is operating in Detroit; that wartime industry has brought to the city numerous white workers from the South who have deep racial feelings; that housing conditions are bad; that Detroit is a fertile field for crackpots and agitators of all kinds, like the sinister Gerald L. K. Smith . . . that...
...next day the city was searching for the real roots of the trouble. Detroit had been warned only two weeks ago by R. J. Thomas, U.A.W.-C.I.O. president, that the Ku Klux Klan was fomenting trouble. (Nearly a year ago LIFE had warned: "Detroit is Dynamite...
...accustomed showmanship, Stokowski glamorized the great sacred composition. He cut Bach's music to slightly over half its length, reorchestrated many passages of Bach counterpoint, peopled the Metropolitan Opera stage with a bevy of hooded mimes, who prowled about a collection of ramps and platforms like Ku Klux Klansmen at a Konklave. The Saviour was represented by a vertical shaft of light whose symbolic feet were symbolically dried by the hair of Maria Magdalena (Lillian Gish...
...among much larger groups than Harvard's alumni. He was roundly damned for protesting the appointment of Louis D. Brandeis to the U.S. Supreme Court for "lack of judicial temperament," for proposing a quota for Jewish students at Harvard as an anti-anti-Semitic move during the Ku Klux rampage of 1922, for barring Negroes from freshman dormitories. He was internationally damned for his part in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In 1927 at the request of Massachusetts' worried Governor Alvan T. Fuller, LowelLand two others* reviewed the trial of the two anarchists, declared them fairly judged...