Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well, if you don't like that one, see what you think of the next one," continued the Governor. "If the Democrats do not nominate Al Smith they had better disband or else reorganize the party as a free trade council of the Ku Klux Klan with Tom Heflin as head Kleagle...
...mails to defraud, the prosecutor of the case being Governor McCray's own appointee, young Mr. Remy. The latter was pointed out on the streets of Indianapolis as "that rising young prosecutor." Before long he succeeded in sending David Curtis Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan and producer of votes for a consideration, to jail for the murder of a girl. In 1927 he obtained the indictments of Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis and six councilmen for corrupt office-getting...
...waiters, children and firemen came. The Mayor's niece came-Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh. Detroit congratulated itself as well as its mayor. . . . In the night, 18 fiery crosses were seen. "Utterly absurd, silly and foolish," said Mayor Lodge, implying that he could not help it if the Ku Klux Klan had the Spirit...
During the week, Governor Smith had occasion, to express himself on one more topic. Some Ku Klux Klansmen in Queens, N. Y., asked him to punish their municipal authorities for breaking up a Klan parade. Governor Smith answered that he could not act but that he hoped justice would be done. He also said: "I regard the purposes of your organization with abhorrence...
Died. Adolphe Valery Coco, 70, one-time (1916-1924) Attorney General of Louisiana, intrepid investigator of the Mer Rouge slayings (1922) involving Ku Klux Klan. It was he who once, unarmed, defended a prisoner from a mob by drawing a line on the ground with his cane and saying: "The first person who crosses that line I kill...