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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nominees | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...Ku Klux Klan has been cited as the cause of many curious happenings. The latest story of the masked order to circulate in business circles is to the effect that it had organized a systematic boycott of Sears, Roebuck & Co. through the small towns of the South and West, because of that firm's predominantly Jewish ownership and management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sears, Roebuck | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

Undoubtedly it is true that Sears, Roebuck's business has not been making anything like as good a showing of late as its rival in the mail-order business, Montgomery Ward & Co., and this fact is pointed out as proof of the Ku Klux Klan boycott story. Three years ago, Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s business was almost three times as great in volume as Montgomery Ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sears, Roebuck | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nominators | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Investigations | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

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