Word: kluxes
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Fought Gamblers, Ku Klux Klan...
...attention whenever bands play the Missouri Waltz (thus forcing the audience to do the same), plugging all local Democrats as a regular party man should. (In California he thus endorsed Hal Styles, Democratic candidate for Congress, who had been clearly exposed as a onetime member of the Ku Klux Klan...
Campaigning in San Francisco, Vice Presidential Candidate Harry Truman amiably endorsed the entire California Democratic ticket. A reporter cut in sharply: did that include Hal Styles (candidate for Congressman from Hollywood, exposed last month as a onetime Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan)? Harry Truman said blandly he was for anybody who was for Franklin Roosevelt...
...operation, Feme courts resembled the Maffia, the Ku Klux Klan and the vigilantes. Secret sentences of its kangaroo courts lay behind 354 political murders committed between the 1918 armistice and June 24, 1922, the day Germany's Jewish Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau died at the hands of the Feme. For all its crimes, two Feme murderers received light sentences in the skittish Weimar courts; the rest were left alone...
Under Gideon's leadership, the poor whites and Negroes of Carwell joined forces to buy the land they lived on. Seldom molested by the Ku Klux Klan as long as Federal troops were around, they worked and prospered. Nine years after the Convention, they had their own homes, schools, mills, ideas. Gideon's eldest son, Jeff, was back from Scotland with a medical degree, and Gideon himself was a Representative in Congress...