Investigations: Dark Days in Weird Week

In the privy Kalendar of the Ku Klux Klan, the code names for October, November and December are Sorrowful, Frightful and Appalling. In this Year of the Klan 100, they may be Ruinous too. For whatever individual nemeses may await the Klan's various leaders during 13 weeks of public hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee, daylight and logic are as lethal to the huggermugger mystique of the "invisible empire" as Lysol is to microbes.

Inferior Lizard. As the Klan's high mugwumps fidgeted through four days of congressional catechism in the old House...

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