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Word: kluxing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal to hold a Ku Klux Klan parade in Washington on Aug. 8, brought many protests to the President. The district commissioners had issued a permit for the parade, holding that they had no right to deny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Jul. 13, 1925 | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...organ both." of the four P's Alliance is to be The Fellowship Forum, a paper published from Washington by a number of 33° Masons which prints the news of all the leading Protestant fraternal orders" and has for some time been favorable to the Ku Klux Klan which falls in that classification. Soon after this news came out there was a report that Mr. Anderson had been in Washington holding long conferences with K. K. K. leaders that they had rejected an offer of an alliance with him. Of this report Mr. Anderson remarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: A.P.P.P.P.A. | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

Oregon Schools. In the fall of 1922, the voters of Oregon by "initiative" passed a law, to become effective in 1926, which required that all children between the ages of 8 and 16 years (except cripples, etc.) be required to attend public schools. It was said that the Ku Klux Klan was behind the law, wishing to put parochial schools out of business, although the law was just as cruel to other private schools. A parochial school and a military academy applied for an injunction against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: The Judicial Week | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

...Burke told them that they were such, and so public opinion criticised the Methodist tribunals for not having a consistent body of Canon Law to guide their decisions in the varied cases which came before them. Therefore the institution fell into discredit and received the contemptuous nickname of Ku Klux Klan, a corruption of an old wrestling term "Catch-as-catch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY OF ABORIGINAL AMERICANS IS RECOUNTED BY UNION ESSAYIST FROM VIEWPOINT OF SCIENTISTS IN FUTURE AGES | 6/5/1925 | See Source »

...Ocean Grove, N. J., the Ku Klux Klan, women members included, thronged an auditorium to the number of 8,000, listened to such statements as: "We must get back to the teachings of our mothers; and if we had lived up to those teachings, there would be no need for the Ku Klux Klan or any other organization in America today. If you are loyal to your mother, you are loyal to your country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Fifth Commandment | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

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