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...should have listened to him. Under the surface of Southampton talk about Al Smith, the Ku Klux Klan, prohibition, life was more like the life of Tsarist Russia than any debutante could understand. In Paul's absence, Anne fell in love with Marco Ghiberti, a mysterious Italian visitor (Southampton had just recovered from the visits of Lindbergh and the Prince of Wales) who was rumored to be nobility. It was a joke. Marco was a Harvard law student whose father had run a restaurant in Italy. Nothing spoiled the joke except that Anne had promised to marry Marco...
...Dilling looked coldly at her codefendant, peppery Mrs. Lois de Lafayette ("T.N.T.") Washburn, who favored delighted photographers with a stiff-armed Nazi salute. Florid, convivial Edward James Smythe, onetime speaker at Bund and Ku Klux Klan rallies, held up proceedings for two days while FBI agents were sent to fetch him, spluttering indignantly, from a fishing trip near the Canadian border. There were also George Deatherage, founder of the Knights of the White Camellia; Howard Victor Broenstrupp, alias the Duke of St. Saba, alias Count Cherep-Spiridovich, etc. Nine of the defendants were already interned or in jail. They arrived...
...first act as Congressman was to vote (after prayer) for war with Germany. His next was to join the Army, as a captain. This time the Armistice thwarted his ambition to fight. He was re-elected regularly to the House until 1928, when he campaigned courageously against the Ku Klux Klan and for Al Smith, and went to the Senate. He became Foreign Relations chairman...
...every minority group has its false leaders. This merely shakes the tree instead of getting at the roots." Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The country has been informed of certain factors that Governor Kelly's committee hasn't deigned to mention: that the old, discredited Ku Klux Klan is operating in Detroit; that wartime industry has brought to the city numerous white workers from the South who have deep racial feelings; that housing conditions are bad; that Detroit is a fertile field for crackpots and agitators of all kinds, like the sinister Gerald L. K. Smith . . . that...
Most fantastic of all to "George Pagnanelli" was the diversity of Hitler's pup pets, who willingly locked together in a crazy, contradictory shambles of anti-Semitism and Führer-worship. Anti-Catholic Ku-Kluxers paraded the streets with Catholic members of the Army of Christ...