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Word: kued (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terms. However, City Manager adherents hope to have this legislative action (which was pushed through purely as a life-saver for the city hall officials) declared unconstitutional. They talked also of bringing impeachment proceedings against Mayor John L. Duvall. The Mayor, elected in 1925 with the support of the Ku Klux Klan, will shortly go on trial, along with the City Comptroller, his brother-in-law, for political corruption in the 1925 election. The Indianapolis election was generally interpreted as the end of "Klan rule" in Indiana, though there was very little organized opposition to the City Manager movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Under New Management | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...Flood water swamped Mer Rouge, La., scene of famed 1924 Ku Klux Klan-Captain Skipworth trial. Bastrop, La., also scene of Klan sensations, was threatened by advancing waters. The flood also menaced St. Martinsville, La., whither traveled Longfellow's Evangeline, where stands the famed Evangeline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Flood Continued | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

Foreign Affairs-Dr. C. C. Wu (son of onetime [1896] Chinese Minister to Washington, Wu Ting-fang, 1896-). Finance-Dr. Ku Yin-fang (onetime associate of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic"). Chiang, his "Cabinet" set up, hurried Northward with two armies, resuming the original Nationalist object of advancing to conquer Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Troubled Cities | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...have my name confused with someone who has ordered his subscription canceled because of your policy, "dictated" by the Vatican, the Ku Klux Klan, the Negroes, the Capitalists and the Labor Unions. I did not cancel my subscription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 11, 1927 | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...interests and by them laid before the Government in. good faith as proving close cooperation between the Mexican Government and the Government of Soviet Russia; 2) a set of "evidence" sold to prominent U. S. Roman Catholics and purporting to prove that a nefarious compact exists between the Ku Klux Klan and the Mexican Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Forged Propaganda | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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