Word: carlsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PLOTTERS (408 pp.)-John Roy Carlson-Dutton...
Ever since his Under Cover became a surprising best-seller (TIME, Aug. 23, 1943), earnest undercoverman John Roy Carlson has kept hot on the trail of U.S. extremists, right & left. Using his pen name of Carlson* or any of several others suited to his purpose, he has applied for membership in the Communist Party and the Ku Klux Klan, listened to orations by the notorious George Van Horn Moseley and Gerald L. K. Smith, corresponded with a string of characters from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including Utah's Marilyn R. ("Jesus was NOT a Jew, but an Israelite...
...Plotters is as badly organized as its predecessor, and once more readers will have to make allowances for Author Carlson's enthusiasm. Though most of the book's "plotters" are boobs and fanatics in white sheets or black shirts, Carlson lists the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, etc. among the groups competing for "postwar America's most precious prize": the millions of former soldiers & sailors. But once again he cites names, dates and documents to show that anti-Catholic, antiSemitic, anti-Negro doctrines still flourish in the U.S. Author Carlson's analysis of certain veterans...
United American Veterans. Its main purpose, according to its National Adjutant, is to "combat communism." Says Carlson: the National Adjutant is Thomas Dixon, "a familiar figure in the prewar Bund and Christian Front circles...
...mile; in Pennsylvania it was James Duff who rode in on the Martin ticket; in Connecticut, James L. McConaughy, onetime college president; in Michigan, racket-busting Kim Sigler; in California, Earl Warren, who had both parties' nominations. In Kansas it was veteran congressional tax expert Frank Carlson in a walk (despite his tacit support of the state's anomalous bone-dry law) over repeal-minded Harry Hines Woodring...