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...Sprigle's series, among other things, had told in detail how Justice Black had been given a gold card which made him a life member of the Klan and how he addressed a Birmingham Klorero on Sept. 2, 1926, sharing a rostrum with the Klan's Imperial Wizard, onetime Dentist Hiram Wesley Evans. Last week, Dr. Evans, enjoying a new appearance in the limelight, repeated that Klan rolls were secret but Justice Black was not currently a member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Black Scandal | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

According to Reporter Sprigle, Klansman Black's resignation was filed but never accepted and after winning the nomination, which meant the election, he reaffirmed his loyalty to Klan principals at an Alabama meeting attended by Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans, was rewarded by a gold Klan card making him a life member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Black in White | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

Said the Klan's Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans when reporters questioned him in Georgia: "I have not examined all the rolls of the Alabama Klan but I know Black is not now a member." Meanwhile the New York Times reported that Justice Black, vacationing in Paris, had dodged efforts of its correspondents to corner and question him. There was little wonder if Justice Black took refuge in the traditional prerogatives of the Nine Old Men of whom he now is one. Secure in a life job, he had little to worry about. If the past of the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Black in White | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...telephones in his home office. There attentive clerks are connected with the firm's customers-other bullion brokers, mining companies, banks and banking houses, speculators, arbitragers. On Saturdays the meetings open at 10:30 a. m. but otherwise the chairman, currently Rothschild's bullion expert and mathematical wizard, Arthur Kimpton, announces crisply: "Gentlemen, it is eleven o'clock. We begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold Panic | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Yaleman Mason appeared to have been merely the tool of Yaleman Garland, who was known among his unsavory associates as "The Wizard." The first Garland wizardry was promotion of Automatic Signal Corp. to make his patented traffic light. Among the original investors were two du Fonts, Charles Michael Schwab, who served for a time as a director, and old Economist Fisher, who sank no less than $750,000 in the enterprise. Automatic Signal is still a going concern with Mr. Fisher trying to get his money back as board chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Yalemen Convicted | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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