Word: klux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, scourge of furriners,* picked up another poker and found it hot. Six men convicted of taking part in nocturnal Ku Klux Klan floggings, three of them now on the chain gang, appealed for clemency. Gene's tender heart was touched. He expressed sympathy for "misguided" floggers, admitted that he had once been one himself. Promising a public hearing on the appeal, he reportedly advised attorneys for the floggers to "have some preachers up here to speak for these...
...Oklahoma is a queer, wild state . . . a place where they arrest people on account of the books in their libraries, where a 'nigger's got to know his place' . . . where the Ku Klux Klan still ranges in their primordial shirttails through the cow pastures and where cro-magnon men still roam the wilderness in dinner coats and black ties. . . . Also where they do not allow Charles Lindbergh to speak...
...Socialist René Marx Dormoy was something special. Its grizzled fullness was a godsend to cartoonists in the days of the Popular Front, when Dormoy as Minister of the Interior was making things hot for the Croix de Feu and the Cagoulards (Hooded Ones), a reactionary Gallic Ku Klux Klan...
...came, Percy got into bed, crammed down quarts of cream and dozens of raw eggs, made enough weight so that he could get into the A. E. F. He was made a captain, cited for bravery. He got back in time to help his father drive the Ku Klux Klan out of Greenville, Miss., after a two-year fight. That taught him what Nazis were like ten years before most people knew about Nazis...
...hasten to congratulate you on your bold front page article of Harvard's Ku Klux Klan invasion. With all respect to the worthy and essential members of the press, may I ask why the facts have not been brought to the fore at a prior date? Ludicrous, indeed, is the thought that a Washington editor, in the guise of a spectator, must tell the police where to look for the criminal. Can it be that this paper is so dedicated to an impossible program of neutrality, that it hates to publish the intimate truth unless the outside world first backs...