Word: klansmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Afro-American Weekly in Baltimore, second-largest Negro publication in the U. S. (circulation 49,384).* Reason: Hoover's acceptance of support from Klansmen...
...that is definitely known thus far is that Gitlow, on a campaign tour of the West was scheduled to speak at Phoenix, Arizona, but that when his train arived there bands of Klansmen and members of the American Legion prevented his descending, and that when he was due to speak at Tuscon he could not be found...
...James Thomas Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope. Just before Senator Heflin began to speak, the platform on which he and 50 others were standing crashed to the ground. Many were bruised; no one was seriously injured. The troopers kept the excited multitude of 10,000 Klansmen and "other patriots" in order. Shaken but unruffled, Senator Heflin climbed on a safe corner of the wreck and heffled for two hours as the sky grew dark with night. Said he: "Alfred will never see the inside of that White House. In the first place...
Apparently the type of practical jokers represented by those who cut down the Lampoon tree is at large again. This sort of thing is a little too obvious for even the more violent or sportive Klansmen to undertake. The joy of mystifying others is a great incentive to such blood-and-thunder tricks. The pleasure of seeing one's deeds acknowledged, even anonymously, and of causing annoyance and perhaps anxiety appeals to some. All in all, it is illogical to expect any bombs or poisoned daggers; in spite of which, the Liberal Club is enabled to uphold its reputation...
...That on and after said date all Klansmen are forbidden to fraternize with or remain in Klannish Fidelity to any who shall thereafter wear upon his helmet a mask or visor...