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...Eastern Shore. And not before-with many a "Macte!", "Eheu!", "Hercle!" and "Conclamatum est!" from the emancipated Higbie Chaffinch - a late and vinous banquet had been served in the latter's homestead with Moggs and Kendrick Glasby present, a banquet that incited a dastardly attack by the Ku Klux Klan ("a boy scout movement for children of 40 ... footpads and submorons, Sir!") which was repelled and its leader, the Rev. Pudley, captured in his white skirts. Nor before Ruth and young Kendrick, within a few hours of meeting, walked in a panic summer midnight to a mad prothalamium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...state conjured 14-year-old Carl Glaze as his mystery witness, and according to the prosecutors, gazing Glaze has seen sufficient to wreck the Parson's plea of self-defense. Dr. Norris is the potent medicine-man of the Texas Fundamentalists. With the aid of the Ku Klux, who he claims have rallied to his cause, he may get off easily. But some, who do not take Dr. Norris' medicine, hope District Attorney Hanger lives up to his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Indicted | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...tear-wringingly described how three of God's faithful were victimized by Conspirator Nebuchadnezzar and cast into a fiery furnace, but how God delivered them from their persecuting flames. (Pastor Norris speaks often of a Catholic conspiracy against him). Ominously one Lloyd P. Bloodworth, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, rumbled fervent amens from the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Indicted | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...else. What the voters of Texas ought to know was just what part this new Mrs. Moody was going to play in the state if Dan were elected. Would it be a "Jiggs and Maggie" proposition? Jim made that sound like a question almost as serious as the Ku Kluxers, fondness for whom he ascribed to Dan Moody despite the latter's consistent disavowals, and his record of having sent five sheeted knights to the penitentiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rodeo | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

Indiana. The Hoosier taste in corruption seems to have been comparatively dormant lately. Only one unsavory matter was before the Indiana public last week, namely, the apparent possibility that Governor Ed Jackson was planning to liberate his old political friend, D. C. Stephenson, onetime Ku Klux Grand Dragon, now residing in the state penitentiary, supposedly for life, for kidnaping, criminally assaulting and murdering a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Corruption | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

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