Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lately white women have been insulted. Splashed on fences, a slogan has appeared: NEGRO, GET YOUR WHITE WOMAN! WE ARE EQUAL NOW. Immediate result was the organization last week of a new secret society, headed by white Cubans and U. S. residents of Cuba, who took the name Ku Klux Klan Kubano.* ¶ No optimist last week was Cuba's Secretary of the Treasury Colonel Manuel Despaigne. With expenses mounting and no taxes collected, he cried: "Financial assistance from the United States is some-thing utterly impossible! Furthermore I do not know where we are going...
...Author Meredith Nicholson, 67. Member of the Hoosier State's famed literary group (George Ade, Booth Tarkington, the late George Barr McCutcheon, the late James Whitcomb Riley), Author Nicholson (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men) began in politics by fighting the Ku Klux Klan. He was elected Indianapolis city councilman, worked hard for a city manager plan. Though passionately fond of oratory, he has been not an outdoor but an indoor politician. He stage-managed Governor Paul V. McNutt's inaugural last January, is a good friend of Secretary of State Hull...
...Nations. Three years later, a dying ex-President grins gauntly from the front door of his Washington home. Warren Gamaliel Harding, onetime bandsman of Marion, Ohio, campaigning with a French horn, shakes hands with lodge brothers in pretentious uniforms. The white sheets and the fiery crosses of the Ku Klux Klan. The Harding inauguration. Oil derricks. Albert Bacon Fall. The Harding funeral train. Calvin Coolidge squeezed into a school desk over which his wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy suit, hoeing in a smock. Mah Jong. Marathon dances. Beauty contests. Rum row. Judge Webster Thayer leaving...
...landslide, and Indiana, by 2-to-1, voted to ratify the 21st Amendment. Illinois, home State of the W. C. T. U. (at Evanston) had been conceded Wet since its 1931 Repeal referendum. Indiana, home of militantly Dry Senator Arthur Robinson, seat of the Northern Ku Klux Klan and of the Prohibition Party's last national convention, provided the first real test of strength of U. S. Drys, Consolidated...
Governor Parker's greatest single achievement was breaking by armed force the murderous grip of the Ku Klux Klan on Louisiana...