Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens resented President Roosevelt's choice of a successor to the retired Justice Van Devanter because the new appointee was (1 a Roman Catholic, 2 lacking in any previous judicial experience, 3 a New England conservative, 4 a prominent "Red-baiter," 5 a past member of the Ku Klux Klan...
Next day, as newsboys hawked George Leoles' name in the streets, he failed in his round of customers to pick up a single hat. Outside his shop marched an American Legionnaire picket. Soon a silent figure in the full regalia of the Ku Klux Klan joined the Legionnaire. George Leoles hurriedly sold his shop...
...same old K-K-K-Klux I knew before...
Meetings of Les Cagoulards ("The Hooded Men") were rumored. But nothing more definite on this fabulous, supposedly extreme Rightist French Ku Klux Klan officially came to light...
...when Ludecke found out. by painful experience, that Hitler abandoned comrades who got themselves in jail. When Hitler was imprisoned after the 1923 ''Beer Hall Putsch," Ludecke was sent on a begging tour of the U. S., where he negotiated - unsuccessfully - with Henry Ford, the Ku Klux Klan, small fry from coast to coast. On a second trip-this time to escape the still more savage intrigues of his comrades- he hit on the idea of an "American folkic program," to be headed by Flyer Lindbergh, spread the good word about Hitler but got little money. In Detroit...