Word: klux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later on, a CRIMSON campaign culminated in the University administration's dropping the requirement that seniors take four courses. A Ku Klux Klau organizational campaign was pooh poohed by the breakfast table daily as was the idea of a Soldier's Bonus...
...best-seller (TIME, Aug. 23, 1943), earnest undercoverman John Roy Carlson has kept hot on the trail of U.S. extremists, right & left. Using his pen name of Carlson* or any of several others suited to his purpose, he has applied for membership in the Communist Party and the Ku Klux Klan, listened to orations by the notorious George Van Horn Moseley and Gerald L. K. Smith, corresponded with a string of characters from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including Utah's Marilyn R. ("Jesus was NOT a Jew, but an Israelite") Allen, and Oregon's W. W. Bradley...
...Veteran. Charlie became a familiar figure at political rallies, usually edged his way to the speakers' platform. To widen his connections, he wrote himself membership cards in the Knights of Columbus, Ku Klux Klan, B'nai B'rith, the Communist Party and Gerald L. K. Smith's America First. He slipped into the studio of radio station KFWB during a memorial broadcast for F.D.R., and was on the air before anyone could stop...
...American Action" is the Ku Klux Klan of the north. Like the Klan, it claims to be everything,--anti-communist, anti-fascist, and pro-American. Patronized by Col. MeCormick and the "Chicago Tribune," it pretends to be the right wing's answer to the Political Action Committee. Its chairman is one Edward A. Hayes, an old "America First Committee" coadjutor who considers himself an expert on communism and subversive activities. At present, while heavily financed by the Republican isolationist bloc in the middle west, "American Action" has been soliciting contributions and a mailing list all over the country with which...
...roader Beauford Jester smacked out a home run to win the ball game with a two-to-one majority. His chief campaign promises: increased old-age pensions without increased taxes, a hearty welcome for all shades of warring Texas Democrats. To Rainey's last-minute charges of Ku Klux Klan backing, he quipped: "He has lost his fast ball, he has lost his curve ball. All he's got left is a mud ball...