Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klux Mayor W. H. N. Stevens, Newark, Ohio (population 30,000) suffered a visitation in his office last week. "How are you, Bailiff?" he queried. Bailiff Robert Darnes arrested His Honor, removed a large revolver from his person, lodged him in Licking County Jail, charged with soliciting bribes. Half hour later, His Honor's stenographer, Miss Margaret Flowers, was also arrested, for active association in the Mayor's alleged requests of traveling salesmen for $100 "contributions...
...Fundamentaldom, Dr. John Roach Straton of the Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, had been imported to address the mother chapter of "The Supreme Kingdom," a high-powered crusading fraternity founded last winter (TIME, Feb. 1) with the paid assistance of Organizer Edward Young Clarke, who built up the Ku Klux Klan for a fat commission on each member pledged. The first feature of the meeting was Organizer Clarke's announcement that the Kingdom would hold a convention at St. Louis in March, "to wage an aggressive warfare against every doctrine and every theory which seeks to rob God of His Supreme...
Republicans sneered at the unsubstantiated charges of Governor Brewster, reminded the voters that he was a friend of the Ku Klux Klan. Whereupon, the Governor replied...
Once, in Dallas, Tex., there was a mediocre dentist with ,an eye for business ventures. He joined the Ku Klux Klan; now he is Imperial Wizard; he knows he has money and he thinks he has power...
...lynching. Georgians were justly proud of Georgia justice. Meanwhile, in Aiken, S. C., there was little progress in the investigation of those responsible for the lynching of the three Lowmans, Negroes, one of whom was a woman-an unusually nauseating incident (TIME, Oct. 18, Nov. 22). The Ku Klux Klan demanded that the New York World, which has led in forcing the investigation, cease its series of lynching articles and recall its reporter from Aiken. Governor Thomas G. McLeod of South Carolina also implied that the World articles are causing hostility to his own investigation, but he has offered...