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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...
Hiram W. Evans, big-time Georgia contractor and onetime Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, got a bill from the Treasury for $257,763.27 in back taxes...
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...
...lanky governor nomineo called a press conference at his hotel here to deny columnist Drew Pearson's charge that he was supported by the Ku Klux Klan...