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...court for each one over 70-the total would have been six-nevertheless, when the smoke of battle cleared away, Mr. Roosevelt's formal defeat had been accompanied by the retirement of arch-conservative Mr. Justice Van Devanter. And no matter how much his former Ku Klux Klan membership belies any innate liberalism, Mr. Justice Black, who was given the vacant chair, is a bona fide New Dealer and may be expected to vote with the liberal wing, as he did this week. Thus in the 1937-38 term, the liberals will have, if not a working majority...
...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...
...Deal with the sarcasm that began to appear in his public utterances after he left the White House, he spoke of "balanced abundance" that "seems to recall the trapeze." Of the Liberalism of the New Deal he remarked: "Its folds can apparently even be entered through the Ku Klux Klan. . . . When you deal with other people's money, the word is conservative, not liberal, especially with a capital...
...participate in decisions in which they have a personal interest. This week the Court refused to review, the 75-year prison sentence imposed on Scottsboro Boy Haywood Patterson, affirmed by the Alabama Supreme Court last June. In announcing its decision, the Court noted without comment that onetime Ku Klux Klanner Hugo LaFayette Black "took no part in the consideration and decision...
...police chief, were indicted. Presently the desk sergeant on duty the night of the floggings fell, jumped or was pushed to his death from the window of a Tampa hospital. A onetime justice of the peace also at police headquarters that night died suddenly and mysteriously. A Tampa Ku Klux Klansman implicated in the case was declared a suicide, though his wife called it murder...