Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...placed in an office far removed from the Republican National Committee (which nevertheless financed his work). The New York World sent an investigator to Colonel Mann's office to ask for "nonpolitical literature" on Candidate Smith. She was directed, she said, to the office of the scurrilous Ku Klux Klan sheet, The Fellowship Forum ("Roman Catholic Clerical Party Opens Big Drive to Capture America for the Pope"). This Colonel Mann denied, crying, "Who arranged this frame-up?" Nevertheless, Roman Catholics continued to regard him as responsible for much of the bigotry propaganda sent...
...spirit of the Ku Klux Klan is still rife in the West. Some few weeks ago, fourteen students of the University of Oklahoma administered a flogging in a student editor for having written an article "reflecting upon the traditions of the school which they were sworn to uphold." Accoutered in black hoods, they entered the editor's room at midnight, carried him off three miles into the country in his pajamas, with the thermometer standing at seventeen below, gave him ten lashes with a three quarters inch rope, and let him walk home. For ten days, the University officials investigated...
Ohio, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania will be as close as a Ku Klux Klan barber shaving Al Smith. I figure that the Leland Stanford football manager will snag two of them...
...learned yesterday that Ku Klux Klan leaflets similar to literature recently passed around in neighboring towns, had been distributed in mail boxes in University dormitories. This leaflet consists of a picture of a man on horseback with the caption, "The Ku Klux Khan rides again". Copies of the Courier, the official magazine of the Khan were also distributed...
...Benjamin Shively suddenly died. There as an Old Guardsman he has served continuously since. Twice he defeated the late Thomas Taggart, Indiana's Democratic boss, to hold his seat. For political support he has shrewdly ridden every popular wind, from the Anti-Saloon League to the Ku Klux Klan which has blown over the Indiana electorate. A fixture at most G. O. P. national conventions since 1912, he passively hoped for the presidential nomination in 1920 and again in 1924, was Indiana's favorite son against Herbert Hoover...