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...York World, which he founded, unmistakably persists in the grand literary prizes which Joseph Pulitzer established. So this year the gold medal for "most distinguished and meritorious service rendered by an American newspaper" was awarded to a brave, obscure journal, which had dared in Georgia to oppose the Ku Klux Klan, the antievolutionists, the lynchers. That paper was the Columbus, Ga., Enquirer...
...Italian attache's pen raced on. It wrote that Senator McKellar of Tennessee (Democrat) called Mussolini "a bandit." It wrote that Senator Reed stigmatized Fascismo as "the Italian Ku Klux Klan." It wrote that Senator Howell of Nebraska (Republican) considers this settlement (totaling $2,407,000,000) "in effect a cancellation of the Italian debt...
...Americans are conformists. It is our national taboo. The minority is persecuted on every side and organizations like the Ku Klux Klan are always in our midst to destroy negroes, Catholics and foreigners. Is this a land of liberty...
...about ten years ago that an organization was founded in the name of the old secret society of reconstruction days, the Ku Klux Klan. It spread through the South and Southwest, burst across Mason and Dixon's line into Indiana, spread eastward to New England, made some progress in the Middle West and gained a few footholds in the Far West...
...motion for cloture came to a vote. Diplomats thronged the galleries; Congressmen hurried in. President Coolidge, kept closely informed of what was passing, sent over a certified copy of the protocol. The name of the Ku Klux Klan was dragged across the chamber and hung on Senator Reed, who flung it off. Hiram Johnson got the last six minutes for objecting...