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Jack McMichael, National Chairman of A. Y. C., got up to speak. He rambled along about the New Deal, about the Ku Klux Klan. When he started deriding the Dies Committee...
...have been disturbed by the participation of Catholics in these groups is Rev. Paul B. Ward, Paulist father, editor of Wisdom (monthly Paulist organ). Few weeks ago the October Wisdom appeared with a brief story about how a leader of the Christian Mobilizers had gone south to a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Forthwith, Father Ward's office was ransacked. He was warned, anonymously, that his life was in danger. He was informed, by telephone, that his church would be picketed. Father Ward called the police...
Closest parallel is perhaps Senator John Scott's inquiry in the Ku Klux Klan in 1871, which began as a straight political move, accepted rumors, facts, alarms, nevertheless succeeded despite its flounderings, or perhaps because of them, in startling the victorious North with a picture of the desperate state of mind of the defeated South. Few correspondents would give Chairman Dies credit for statesmanship. Many held him only a showman. Some considered him a dangerous demagogue; some gave credit for the Committee's more effective work to Investigator J. B. Matthews and Attorney Rhea Whitley. But the Committee...
...became a great Greek scholar. He also became one of the strong men of U. S. education. In 40 years at Colorado, 20 as its president, he made it the best university between the Middle West and the Pacific Coast. In the process he faced down the Ku Klux Klan and many another foe of academic freedom. Few years ago he frightened his friends by defying Adolf Hitler in his own backyard. As a visiting lecturer in Berlin, he persisted in championing democracy despite brownshirts' warnings. When police stopped him one day at the gates of University of Berlin...
...Firestone legal department at Akron, later joined the law firm of Mather & Nesbitt and became one of the attorneys for Northern Ohio Power & Light (now Ohio Edison Co.) and other "vested intersts" (the Willkie Indiana pronunciation). He also mixed in politics: debated against the Ku Klux Klan, spoke for the progressive doctrines of Bob La Follette, the elder, fought the nomination of William Gibbs McAdoo at the 1924 Democratic convention because of the Klan issue. In 1926 aristocratic Public Utilitarian Bernard Capen Cobb wrote to an officer of his Northern Ohio Power & Light: "Do not let this young...