Word: kued
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of a shortage of funds and hence of police, the Chief of Detectives of St. Petersburg, Fla., accepted an offer of the Ku Klux Klan to furnish patrols gratis, sans robes, sans masks...
Members of Congress and other Washingtonians received a royal proclamation inviting them to join the "Chivalric citizenry" of the "Royal and Beneficent Domain" of the "Knights of the Flaming Sword," a rival of the Ku Klux Klan now being advanced by William J. Simmons, one-time promoter of the Klan...
...spat. Four bodies were carried to the undertaker's. Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas, who left Herrin last fall, after an affair in which six were taken to the undertakers, gave notice that he was going to return to town. According to reports. S. Glenn Young, his feud enemy, Ku Klux Klan leader in a number of dry raids, paraded the streets all one day waiting for Sheriff Thomas; with him were a dozen supporters; towards evening, Thomas met Young at the European Hotel; someone-said to be Young-opened fire. Young, Sheriff Thomas and two others were killed outright...
...jail. He bayonets a soldier of the invading companies sent to subdue strike disturbances by martial law. Pursued, he finds momentary safety in a mine shaft and there assaults a little Jewish maiden. He is captured, blinded, hanged. His mother, the girl and her father are clutched by the Ku Klux, rescued by agitators. The murderer returns sightless and amalgamates himself with the girl, about to be a mother, in a jazz wedding ceremony...
...Brien congratulates the Sons of the American Revolution and the Knights of Columbus, who have done their part. He now calls to the colors the shock troops of historical research the Elks, the American Legion, the Masons, and the Odd Fellows, ignoring the W. C. T. U. and the Ku Klux Klan. The reason for this slight, in view of the Klan's unparalleled equipment for Americanization work, is unexplained...