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...When news that Associate Justice Hugo Black had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan appeared a month ago, the President's only comment was that he would have nothing to say until Justice Black returned from Europe. Last fortnight when Justice Black was addressing some 50,000,000 other U. S. citizens, the President was pointedly riding in an open car (without radio), stopping to exchange small talk with a U. S. Army officer at the gateway to Fort Lewis near Tacoma. Last week, in Chicago, Franklin Roosevelt drove through cheering lines of thousands of Chicagoans...
Seen blazing on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Jarvis Street last night was the flery cross of the Ku Klux Klan. Polico and fire departments were notified, and one fire engine soon arrived to quell the flames. The Klaumen, however, had vanished...
...insinuations of racial and religious intolerance made concerning me are based on the fact that I joined the Ku Klux Klan about 15 years ago. I did join the Klan. I later resigned. I never rejoined. What appeared then, or what appears now, on the records of the organization, I do not know...
...never have considered and I do not now consider the unsolicited card given to me shortly after my nomination to the Senate as a membership of any kind in the Ku Klux Klan. I never used it. I did not even keep...
...figure. With little of the understanding of or co-operation toward the press which characterized him when he was making glowing headlines far himself as the Senate's Great Investigator, Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black, whom newspaper investigation had just revealed as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. was slipping home from Europe as quietly as possible on the Baltimore Mail Liner City of Norfolk instead of sailing into New York Harbor on the United States Liner Manhattan as he had previously planned...