Word: ku
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sprightly sage, famed as "AE." As greatly beloved as any living Irishman, Poet Russell had roused the furies by a pungent critique* of Ireland's secret and romantic brotherhoods as they exist today. A tough old patriot himself, he finds the brotherhoods flabby-muscled, fatheaded, sunk like the Ku Klux Klan in babbittry, bigotry. Wrote he: "The secret societies of a generation ago had for object the freedom of Ireland. There was good reason, too, for their being secret. "All small nationalties submerged in great empires tend to develop a subterranean political life. It is impossible to fight great...
Citizens of Canada were proud last week that the Dominion had ended its first legal battle with the Ku Klux Klan in no uncertain manner. In Oakville, Ontario, some weeks ago, a band of hooded Klansmen kidnaped a white girl from the home of a Negro with whom she resided, posted a sign on the Negro's door: "NOTICE: THERE SHALL BE NO MINGLING BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES IN OAKVILLE...
...minutes before the regular delegates meeting at Indianapolis did the same thing. They kept the Union's regular name, voted Lewis out simply by declaring all national offices vacant. Official salaries were cut in half, a five-day week and six-hour day were approved. Communists, 'leggers and Ku Klux Klansmen were banned from...