Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began some years ago when Indianapolis welcomed the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan brought gutter politics. Last month Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis was found guilty of corrupt office-getting in his 1925 election. The City Council asked him to resign. He refused, and appointed his wife City Comptroller. In Indianapolis, the City Comptroller automatically succeeds the mayor should anything happen...
...should cease to offer them. Mr. Johnson is original at the price of being trivial. He concludes on the hopeful note that the collee graduate, without an education but with that je-ne-saisquoi which he lacked before, will be less likely than his brother to join the Ku-Klux-Klan. Four years and some thousands of dollars at almost any college should and usually do accomplish more than that. As for any institution which which cannot do more, which faces the broadening, and cannot combine them alternative of giving an education or a--it had best transform itself into...
Negro Alderman A. B. Whitlock did not insinuate that Ku Klux Klannism lay behind the Emerson strike. Instead, he firmly said: "This [appropriation] is a useless expenditure of the taxpayers' money. We have plenty of room now for all the schoolchildren of Gary. This money [$15,000] wouldn't equip a shack, and the site you propose is in a wilderness. There are no streets, no sewers, no facilities there...
...Duvall had included his acceptance of $14,500 from one William H. Armitage, gambler, saloonist and politician, in return for the privilege of naming three city officials. This privilege Mr. Duvall was said to have revoked later when he found it conflicted with similar privileges he had promised Ku Klux Klanners for certain considerations...
...return for Mr. McDonald's appointment. 3) That Mr. McCray refused Mr. Jackson, his cash and his immunity, appointing instead to the vacant post the successor recommended by his son-in-law, namely, William H. Remy. 4) That Grand Dragon David C. Stephenson of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan later repeated the cash-and-immunity offer to Mr. McCray, who again refused. 5) That Mr. Jackson and Mr. Stephenson then threatened Mr. McCray, while he was serving time for his felony in Atlanta Peni- tentiary, to obstruct his parole if he ever gave them away...