Word: hudler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daily Hudler is publisher of a weekly newspaper, the Times, in the little town (pop. 5,575) of Noblesville, Ind. One day last December a slight, cigar-chewing, onetime State policeman, Carl Losey, turned up in Noblesville, said he would like to buy Mr. Hudler's Noblesville press. Mr. Hudler said he was willing...
They got together in a lawyer's office and drew up the papers. Mr. Hudler was about to sign when Losey's Indianapolis lawyer pulled out a fat wallet, selected two crisp $5,000 bills as a down payment, planked them on the table. In a town like Noblesville you don't close a deal with $5,000 banknotes-you offer a certified check. Mr. Hudler thought it over awhile. Then he said: "I don't believe I'll sell my press...
When Newsman Hudler turned him down two months ago, Losey bought an abandoned box factory on the outskirts of Noblesville, started the Fellowship Press. From Asheville, N. C., he imported presses on which Fascist Pelley used to turn out his defunct Silvershirt organ, Liberation. He denied that Pelley had any connection with Fellowship Press, later admitted that he would publish Pelley's treatise on "metaphysics and esoterics...
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