Word: kued
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lynching. Georgians were justly proud of Georgia justice. Meanwhile, in Aiken, S. C., there was little progress in the investigation of those responsible for the lynching of the three Lowmans, Negroes, one of whom was a woman-an unusually nauseating incident (TIME, Oct. 18, Nov. 22). The Ku Klux Klan demanded that the New York World, which has led in forcing the investigation, cease its series of lynching articles and recall its reporter from Aiken. Governor Thomas G. McLeod of South Carolina also implied that the World articles are causing hostility to his own investigation, but he has offered...
...political and industrial reins of the state. These "new" South Carolinians are described as trying to be both boosters and oldtime Southern gentlemen. The result shows itself in blatherskite politicians like its Senator Cole Blease.* This new gentry is composed of many who believe that, if they join the Ku Klux Klan and goad the Negroes, they are thereby keeping alive the traditions of the Old South. They are quite different from the old Southern gentleman "who knew how to handle the Negro...
Meredith Nicholson, Indiana novelist of national repute:f "'The Ku Klux Klan and its brood-corrupt politicians-have cost Indiana at least a billion dollars, and earned my state the title, Land of the Boobs,' said I, caustically, to Indianapolis newsgatherers. 'When I go elsewhere I railed on, 'people don't kid me any more about being from the state of authors. "Is your governor- still in jail?" they ask, and "How's the Ku Klux Klan?" Even with Senator Watson crying "You're a liar!" the Indiana Republicans cannot deny that...
...Pastor's career has been stormy. A Ku Klux Klan member, he has been tried (and acquitted) for arson, was an aide of William Jennings Bryan in the Scopes Evolution trial, has vigorously denounced race tracks, Catholics, other things and persons...
...have not denied that I am seeking the votes of the Ku Klux Klan,. but have coupled it with the statement that I wanted the votes of all other orders, churches and creeds...