Word: kued
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last summer (TIME, July 26) one Dexter E. Chipps went to Evangelist Norris' study in the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, to remonstrate against the evangelist's utterances upon Chipps' close friend, Mayor H. C. Meacham of Fort Worth. Politics, the Ku Klux Klan, Roman Catholicism¶all lay behind the diatribes that Evangelist Norris considered himself called upon to utter from his church rostrum. He had been threatened with death; he believed that angry Mr. Chipps had come to kill him; he, famed for his gunmanship, shot quickly, to be first. Later he learned, with...
...joins as a "Crusader", 500 dollars, as a "Mystic Knight", 1000 dollars as a "Foundation Member". The general manager for this twentieth century scale of indulgences is one Edward Clarke, who has already earned a sum running into six figures by commissions off the sale of memberships to the Ku Klux Klan. Such a man finds that religion and patriotism...
...nigger men" and even more most certainly not the cowered and much outraged white women. . . . Maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me that if in spite of Ku Kluxes and Jim Crow laws, "niggers" are good enough to be made the sons, daughters, aunties, uncles, cousins, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and concubines of the high-and- mighty Southern gentlemen of Poynter's ilk there should be little room for complaint from them when a few humble but learned magazine editors and managers persist on "putting themselves down on equality with Negroes...
...phrase. "Supreme Kingdom" in this connection does not mean the entire body of Christ's dominion on the earth. It is the name of an organization. A certain Edward Young Clarke, who, according to various exposes, is "extortioner, fraudulent publicity-man and Mann Act vio-lator," organizer of the Ku Klux Klan, has created the Supreme Kingdom. He created at the same time an "Organization Service Co. " to sell memberships in the Supreme Kingdom. Mr. Clarke made a great deal of money selling memberships in the Ku Klux Klan for $10 apiece, of which he kept $8. Controlling the finances...
...righteous indignation or as a means of diverting suspicion from guilty fellow-Klansmen. Judge R. E. Hardeman of the Toombs circuit did not hush up such a suspicion when he told the press last week: "It is generally known that between 40 and 50 persons attired in official Ku Klux Klan regalia paraded through Lyons shortly before Brown was seized and hurried out of town. Brown himself stated to me that there was absolutely no doubt but that the mob members wore the official robes with official insignia...