Word: kued
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Negro Alderman A. B. Whitlock did not insinuate that Ku Klux Klannism lay behind the Emerson strike. Instead, he firmly said: "This [appropriation] is a useless expenditure of the taxpayers' money. We have plenty of room now for all the schoolchildren of Gary. This money [$15,000] wouldn't equip a shack, and the site you propose is in a wilderness. There are no streets, no sewers, no facilities there...
...John Duvall had included his acceptance of $14,500 from one William H. Armitage, gambler, saloonist and politician, in return for the privilege of naming three city officials. This privilege Mr. Duvall was said to have revoked later when he found it conflicted with similar privileges he had promised Ku Klux Klanners for certain considerations...
...return for Mr. McDonald's appointment. 3) That Mr. McCray refused Mr. Jackson, his cash and his immunity, appointing instead to the vacant post the successor recommended by his son-in-law, namely, William H. Remy. 4) That Grand Dragon David C. Stephenson of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan later repeated the cash-and-immunity offer to Mr. McCray, who again refused. 5) That Mr. Jackson and Mr. Stephenson then threatened Mr. McCray, while he was serving time for his felony in Atlanta Peni- tentiary, to obstruct his parole if he ever gave them away...
...throwing verbal and documentary bombs at various Indiana officials from his life-prisoner's cell in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City. Mr. Stephenson, irate at getting no help in his attempts to escape serving his sentence for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, began his disclosures of Ku Klux Klan rule in Indiana by holding a long conference with Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy of Marion County, Ind. Then he released certain checks to Indianapolis papers-checks made out to Republican Indiana statesmen, politicians, including Governor Ed Jackson. Last fortnight the conference and check excitement had somewhat died...
...nonclerical interpretation would indicate that the Chicago church-member situation jibes with empirical fact: church membership is a social phenomenon; the professional man belongs for church contacts, just as he more blatantly belongs to Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Odd Fellows, Elks, Masons, Knights of Columbus, B'nai B'rith, Ku Klux Klan, International Bible Students, etc.; the clerk and the businessman aspire to the same social security and economic advantages; the working man seeks his security in his unions, in preference to churches, which he considers "controlled" normally by the rich. The acknowledged membership situation is pragmatically so and striving...