Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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One William M. Rogers, Indiana Klansman, had sworn before a Senate committee that upon a trip to Washington in 1926 he had applied to Senator Watson for assistance in getting a Government job, that Senator Watson had proudly exhibited a Klan imperial passport, had claimed high membership in the order...
This testimony greatly distressed Senator Watson, then an active presidential candidate. He denied the Rogers statement but not, according to his friends, emphatically, convincingly enough. Thereafter, according to the charges in the Rogers damage suit, Candidate Watson, Republican National Committeeman M. Burt Thurman and six other Indiana politicians (all defendants...
An affidavit repudiating his claim, that Senator Watson was a Klansman was prepared and, when Rogers refused to sign it, his name was clumsily forged to it. For this forgery one man has already been sent to prison. Plaintiff Rogers now seeks settlement from the rest who, he believes, tried...
Last week the Great Question on many a farm throughout the land was: Will there be federal relief for this year's crops? Wheat men, dubious of such relief this season, pricked up their ears at a suggestion from North Dakota's Senator Nye that the U. S...
Senator Caraway of Arkansas had a newsstory of the affair read into the Congressional Record, refraining carefully, save for a characteristic wrinkling of his nose, from any comment. But South Carolina's Senator Blease blurted: "Didn't I warn my audiences in the South in the last campaign...