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...Harry Dalton, 29, is a big, friendly Manhattan building contractor who used to play halfback at West Point. He is also a devout Catholic and vigorous American. Strolling with some friends one evening a few years ago, he paused to listen to a soapbox orator in full cry under a huge cross set up in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. Some of the things the rabble-rouser spouted as "Catholic" doctrine burned Harry up. "I was in Jesuit schools twelve years," he growled, "and I never heard stuff like that." He began to growl louder. The speaker kicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Mr. McNazi | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...whom Harry Dalton had pulled off the stand was a Christian Mobilizer, an organization spawned by radiorating Father Coughlin (though Father Coughlin denies any relationship). Harry began to attend Christian Mobilizer meetings as a heckler. At one meeting he heard handsome, Jew-baiting Joseph Ellsberry McWilliams, leader of the Mobilizers, and American Destiny Party candidate for Congress from Yorkville, Manhattan's German settlement. After listening to handsome Joe, who is part Cherokee Indian, with a smattering of formal education (a WPA public-speaking course), Harry decided that heckling was not enough. He hauled McWilliams off the stand. McWilliams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Mr. McNazi | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...McWilliams gave Harry Dalton a new aim in life. Harry's West Pointer father, a former sergeant at arms of the New York State Senate, and as husky as his son, joined him in the cause. For $50 they bought a fruit & vegetable truck, festooned it with flags, mounted a pair of spotlights, christened it Old Ironsides and moved in on McWilliamsland. Said Harry: "I decided to find out if Yorkville was a part of the U. S." If McWilliams held three street-corner meetings a week, the Daltons held five. Harry talked about Americanism, and what it meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Mr. McNazi | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Last week Harry Dalton, doling out patriotic literature from his Yorkville headquarters, found himself leading a full-fledged political movement. At a mass meeting 4,500 patriotic Yorkvillagers rallied round his Congressional candidate, Republican James Elaine Walker Jr., great-nephew of Garfield's and Harrison's Secretary of State James Gillespie Elaine. Out on parole awaiting sentence for disorderly conduct was Joe McWilliams, whom Dalton (and Walter Winchell) had dubbed "McNazi." But not even McWilliams' impending defeat satisfied Harry. He wanted to debate with him from the same platform. Closest he had come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Mr. McNazi | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...country around Dalton is still Bedspread Land. The roads are hung on both sides with thousands of bedspreads for sale. In city department stores this year some $12,000,000 worth of bedspreads, 75% of them from Dalton, will sell at an average retail price of $5. Last week 1,000 girls (many of them from ex-tufting mountain families) flocked into the 50-odd Dalton spread factories, signing on in preparation for the fall production rush. By mid-September there will be 7,000 of them hard at work at the machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Catherine Evans1 Bedspreads | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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