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...Benjamin Shively suddenly died. There as an Old Guardsman he has served continuously since. Twice he defeated the late Thomas Taggart, Indiana's Democratic boss, to hold his seat. For political support he has shrewdly ridden every popular wind, from the Anti-Saloon League to the Ku Klux Klan which has blown over the Indiana electorate. A fixture at most G. O. P. national conventions since 1912, he passively hoped for the presidential nomination in 1920 and again in 1924, was Indiana's favorite son against Herbert Hoover...
...upon consumers. Nominee Russell, brightest of 13 brothers & sisters, proposes, as a sample of statesmanship, to collect the War Debts by severing diplomatic and commercial relations with Europe and forbidding U. S. banks to accept foreign exchange. The Crisp-Russell campaign was hot & heavy with each side trying to Klux the other with the charge of favoring Catholics for public office. Senator Walter Franklin George was renominated without opposition. Named for Governor to suceed Senator-elect Russell was Eugene Talmadge, Commissioner of Agriculture...
...youth of today are the wisest, the most hopeful and the most moral that the world ever saw." . . . My difficulties in Denver, as is well known (see The Dangerous Life, published by Horace Liveright- 1931, for all details) were due to my rights against the bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan when it rose to power there in 1924 and our battles with the privileged interests and corrupt corporate powers that I wrote about in the Beast and the Jungle stories. These powers have circulated many lying stories about me and viciously misrepresented my views on what is popularly known...
...converted Wall Street to the Federal Reserve. Only Mr. McAdoo himself seems to recall that it was no less a person than the elder Morgan who, at the outbreak of War in 1914, begged his advice on closing the Stock Exchange. All the East remembers is the Ku Klux Klan and the bad taste left by the 1924 convention. Time and distance have wilted the McAdoo reputation in Wall Street. Today he is thought of rather as a lanky, uncouth Westerner, flapping a cowboy hat, who backed "that wild man Garner" for the Presidency and then traded...
Saturation. In spite of their tempestuous campaign and the assistance given them by the Junker Cabinet, the Hitlerites polled almost exactly the same number of votes that they did in the April presidential election. German observers have com pared the growth of Hitlerism to the growth of the Ku Klux Klan in the U. S. saying that its appeal was irresistible to a certain class of citizens - in the case of Germany, the conservative, impoverished lower middle class. Thirteen million Ger mans voted for Adolf Hitler in April. That, observers felt, was nearly 100% of the class. Since then Naziism...