Word: klux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From that incident until the final reel, Native Land seldom lets down. With a fine feeling for suspense and violence, it re-enacts the vigilante pursuit (in 1936) and murder of a pair of Arkansas sharecroppers who wanted a trivial raise, the Ku-Klux flogging of Joseph Shoemaker and two companions (in 1935, on a road north of Tampa, Fla.) for almost defeating a Klansman in the city elections, the untidy tale of a company labor...
...Alabama (1927-31; 1935-39); of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. He was the only Alabama Governor ever to serve two full terms, was preparing, when he died, to campaign for a third. He was nicknamed "the Klan Governor" when he first took office, later dropped his Ku Klux membership. When ex-Klansman Senator Hugo Black went to the Supreme Court bench in 1937, Graves appointed his wife to fill the vacancy...
...newspaper PM to expose Deatherage, who had planned a fascist coup, as a potential spy who had risen to be an executive engineer in one of our most important naval construction projects. The Navy fired Deatherage while Dies sulked in his office. He has done nothing about the Ku Klux Klan, General Moseley, Pelley, McWilliams, all avowed fascists. In four years Congress hasn't deemed it wise to pass any one of the nine bills offered by the Dies Committee. Why then should it grant another...
Henry Ford threatened legal action against the Ku Klux Klan unless they stopped reprinting in pamphlets anti-Semitic articles from Ford's old Dearborn Independent. Through his attorney he pointed out to Imperial Wizard James A. Colescott that he had retracted the articles in 1928. Wizard Colescott said the Klan had stopped circulating the pamphlets the day war was declared...
Preachers came, at least a score, but with few pleas for mercy. Instead, most denounced flogging, compared the Klan to "the despicable Gestapo." One stocky pastor described his own flogging to unconsciousness. Except for an orthodox Jew, who paid tribute to the Ku Klux Klan, the show took an altogether wrong turn...