Word: kluxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four Senators quickly cleansed their names of the Hearstian smear, in downright statements. Senator Heflin was most agitated. He roared about "scalawags, crooks and scoundrels." In the course of his protestimony he was obliged to tell about receiving money from the Ku Klux Klan for his anti-Roman Catholic orations...
...Indian Territory. More Indians were sent there - Sacs, Foxes, lowas, Pottawatomies. Also Cheyennes and Arapahoes. Then more Cherokees. Then some Kickapoos. In 1907, the Indian Territory was lumped with Oklahoma Territory and admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma, famed since for oil wells, yellow pine, Ku Klux Klan, cal ow politics. Of the seven Governors the state has had, six have been threatened with impeachment by bands of political freebooters who from time to time dominate Oklahoma. †Many sat or lay on the floor...
...campus for his speech. "Why?" asked Mr. Page. Answered President Trotter: "Because this is a state-supported institution and too much turmoil had been caused by the invitation." The Reserve Officers Training Corps, the American Legion, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Ku Klux Klan had protested. Mr. Page spoke outside the campus, to 75 students...
...refer to us as bleary because we lack a Ku Klux Klan, which would do away with some of the colonial peculiarities which are imposed upon us from the North...
...most strenuous delegates was James E. Baum of the American Bankers' Association, whose plan for bands of citizen vigilantes armed with pistols and sawed-off shotguns sounded much like the Ku Klux Klan...