Saluting the flag
), one of the reasons it hit such a raw nerve with Irish-Americans is that coincided with an upsurge of protests by the Ku Klux Klan.
So the same New York Times that reported the Klan’s anti-Catholic rhetoric gave details of the impending funerals of their fellow rioters, to be held at a Catholic church in the Bronx. “About one thousand Fascisti will attend,” predicted the paper. News website The Intercept, for example, suggested Conway seemed “blissfully unaware that her own ancestors were once the target of the sort of nativist hatred her boss is currently ginning up”.
Apologists have suggested she was merely saluting the US flag, in the style associated with the pledge of allegiance. According to her biographer, Deanna Paoli Gumbina, Norris “firmly believed that any American who wanted to work could find a job, and to prove her point, dressed in worn clothing and imitating an Irish brogue, she applied for employment as a dishwasher in a private home during the early months of the Depression”.
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