Word: kued
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Party which met at Columbus, Ohio, and nominated Judge Gilbert O. Nations for President. It invited support from the Ku Klux Klan and adopted a platform outlawing war and polygamy...
William G. McAdoo chose for his nominator former Senator James D. Phelan of California. The significance of the choice was interpreted as: 1) a bid for wet support, since Mr. Phelan, when in Congress, was an advocate of light wines and beers; 2) a bid for anti-Ku Klux Klan support, since Mr. Phelan is a Catholic...
Edward Young Clarke, former Imperial Wizard Pro Tern of the Ku Klux Klan, appeared to testify in regard to the contested election of Senator Earle B. Mayfield of Texas. He testified that he had agreed with Dr. Hiram W. Evans, also of the K. K. K., that the Klan would do everything in its power to elect Mayfield and that Evans had said money must be no consideration...
...final House debate on the Johnson measure was enlivened by undignified antics. Representative James A. Gallivan, Democrat of Massachusetts, denounced the Ku Klux influence back of the measure. Said he: "You seem to forget that only the other day your ancestors were alien, the sons of England, and France, Ireland and Scotland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and other lands. Wherever the immigrant has gone schools have sprung up, industries have flourished, trade has increased, wealth has multiplied, prosperity has bloomed and patriotism, peace, law, order, intelligence and happiness follow in his footsteps...
Governor Walter M. Pierce, elected on the Ku Klux Klan platform, said the case would be appealed to the Supreme Court...