Word: kued
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cleared" earlier than usual. But Mr. Davis, speaking from the very rostrum from which Candidate Coolidge was nominated in June, found time to denounce the tariff and the Republican record and to squelch a heckler who bawled out "What is your stand on the Ku Klux Klan...
...desktop last month, started taking $25 out of the till of the Emporia Gazette each week, and set off banging over the "skiddy, rocky, hilly, bumpy roads of his state-in a dilapidated automobile" seeking votes. The one string of his political fiddle has been ridicule of the Ku Klux Klan-a string which he has played with incessant vigor and variety. Reports last week indicated that Mr. White was unsettling the calculations of Republican Candidate Ben Paulen and the plans of Governor Jonathan M. Davis, Democratic candidate, whose chief cries are: "Honesty! Friendship to farmers...
...Ku Klux Klan is an American Fascismo. So writes Arthur Corning White in the November "Forum." Mr. White asserts that, like the Italian organization, the Klan owes its existence to the economic discontent of the middle class, and that its real purpose, although the Klan may not yet realize the fact, is certain to be the championing of middle class interests in the war between Capital and Labor. This theory makes interesting reading, but its accuracy is questionable...
...first place that great American institution, the Ku Klux Klan, does not represent any particular class as much as it represents a state of mind. Its causes are not so much economic discontent as they are chauvinism, bigotry, and intolerance. These virtues are not necessarily middle class nor do they have their roots in economic dissatisfaction. Klanism is simply a sad commentary on the condition of education and religion in the United States. It is possible, of course, that the Klan may some day decide to support something reasonable like the rights of the middle class. No such comparatively broad...
...turned his attention to corralling the 45 electoral votes of New York. Following a speech at Albany, he went on to Syracuse and Buffalo. He attacked the "impotence" of the Administration's foreign policy, the "failure" of the Administration to wipe out corruption, the protective tariff and the Ku Klux Klan. Then he retired for a brief rest on his estate at Long Island, only to set forth once more into the Middle West, first into Indiana, speaking at Richmond, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Terre Haute, Evansville. . . . He planned then to swing across Illinois to St. Louis, and return East...