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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Montana. Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, opportunistically appeared as a campaigner against Senator Thomas James Walsh, Dry Roman Catholic, Democratic nominee for reelection. Wizard Evans was inferentially supporting Wet Catholic Albert John Galen, Republican Senatorial nominee. His explanation: Senator Walsh is much abler and more experienced than Nominee Galen, more capable politically...
Alabama. With Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin who mortally fears and hates the Roman Pope, legally barred from the Democratic primary because he bolted the national ticket in 1928, Demo- crats last week nominated for the Senate John H. Bankhead, Jasper attorney, son of the late Senator John Hollis Bankhead, uncle of voluptuous, London-petted Actress Tallulah Bankhead. The defeated candidate: Frederick Ingate Thompson, Mobile publisher. Judge Benjamin Meek Miller, anti-Klan, won the regular Democratic nomination for Governor. Senator Heflin, who plans to run as an independent Senatorial candidate in November, urged his friends to keep away from...
Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, suffered bruises, cuts, a sprained wrist, when the motor in which he, his son and some Ku Klux friends were riding smacked into a telephone pole near Decatur...
...unveil a bronze and marble statue of Charles-Michel, Abbé de 1'Epée (1712-89), the man who codified the existing hand signs of his day, invented new ones and created the first intelligible means of communication for the deaf. He was a Roman Catholic priest, canon of the Cathedral of Troyes, son of Louis XIV's architect...
...Douglas "confession" was written to Harris in 1927. By then Douglas had become a devout Roman Catholic and had been married a long time. Says he: "A little more than a year after Wilde's death I married. Such perverted instincts as I had disappeared completely as soon as I lost contact with Wilde and his immediate entourage." Douglas openly accuses Wilde of pederasty but denies any complicity on his part. Harris is inclined to believe this...