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Died. Joseph Bradley David. 74, since 1916 judge of Cook County, Ill., Superior & Criminal Court benches; of heart disease; in Chicago. Bitter foe of Prohibition, easy divorce, the Ku Klux Klan, Judge David once tossed out of court a proposed injunction against fan dances. Said he: "Lots of people in this community would like to put pants on horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 28, 1938 | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...citizens resented President Roosevelt's choice of a successor to the retired Justice Van Devanter because the new appointee was (1 a Roman Catholic, 2 lacking in any previous judicial experience, 3 a New England conservative, 4 a prominent "Red-baiter," 5 a past member of the Ku Klux Klan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Next day, as newsboys hawked George Leoles' name in the streets, he failed in his round of customers to pick up a single hat. Outside his shop marched an American Legionnaire picket. Soon a silent figure in the full regalia of the Ku Klux Klan joined the Legionnaire. George Leoles hurriedly sold his shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Witness & Justices | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...same old K-K-K-Klux I knew before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Dec. 20, 1937 | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

Meetings of Les Cagoulards ("The Hooded Men") were rumored. But nothing more definite on this fabulous, supposedly extreme Rightist French Ku Klux Klan officially came to light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Terrible Gravity | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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