Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge that he be allowed to take the place of Warren T. McCray. Later both Indiana Senators asked that a parole be given the onetime Governor. Public sympathy mounted even higher when it was hinted that when indicted the Governor had refused a Klu Klux Klan offer of immunity in exchange for naming a certain candidate for public prosecutor; that he had named instead William H. Remy who then acted in the Governor's prosecution. This time public sympathy had effect; last week onetime (1921-24) Governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray, now convict 17746 in the Atlanta...
...affect and whatever it may cost ... he will have performed a public service that will do much to wipe out the stain upon his own name." Indeed soon after his release, the Marion Grand Jury† planned to call Mr. McCray to testify on the subject of the Klu Klux Klan offer alleged to have been made by present Governor of Indiana Ed Jackson...
Governor Ed Jackson, Indiana, at present more or less involved in the Ku Klux Klan disclosures emanating from David C. Stephenson (see CORRUPTION), said that he had a sympathetic interest in all the questions discussed and was willing to cooperate fully in bettering the country...
...verbal and documentary bombs at various Indiana officials from his life-prisoner's cell in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City. Mr. Stephenson, irate at getting no help in his attempts to escape serving his sentence for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, began his disclosures of Ku Klux Klan rule in Indiana by holding a long conference with Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy of Marion County, Ind. Then he released certain checks to Indianapolis papers-checks made out to Republican Indiana statesmen, politicians, including Governor Ed Jackson. Last fortnight the conference and check excitement had somewhat died down...
...nonclerical interpretation would indicate that the Chicago church-member situation jibes with empirical fact: church membership is a social phenomenon; the professional man belongs for church contacts, just as he more blatantly belongs to Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Odd Fellows, Elks, Masons, Knights of Columbus, B'nai B'rith, Ku Klux Klan, International Bible Students, etc.; the clerk and the businessman aspire to the same social security and economic advantages; the working man seeks his security in his unions, in preference to churches, which he considers "controlled" normally by the rich. The acknowledged membership situation is pragmatically so and striving...