Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Railroaders, led by big John Jeremiah Pelley, chief of the newly-formed Association of American Railroads, point to the additional expense of pooling as justification of the present system...
...carriers of the U. S. have long felt the need for a fulltime Washington spokesman, a man of power, prestige and personality who would be authorized to strike and strike hard in their behalf. Last week in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel they picked their new leader-John Jeremiah Pelley, 56, president of New York, New Haven & Hartford...
...board of 14 directors-five from the East, three from the South, six from the West-was elected. When Mr. Pelley resigns his $37,000-a-year position with the New Haven, and moves into his Washington headquarters, he will certainly be paid no less by the new association. His most important job will be to fight for or against the transportation legislation which is sure to be a major Congressional issue next winter. Speaking for the first time in his new capacity, Mr. Pelley left no doubt last week about his militant conception of AAR: "The railroads recognize...
Once upon a time William Dudley Pelley was a newspaper man in Vermont. Later he was a spiritualist. Since January 1933 he has occupied the exalted post of commander and promoter of the silver-shirted Silver Legion (claimed membership: 100,000). Galahad Press published Liberation, a weekly magazine with which Shirtman Pelley publicized Silver Shirt ideals, attacked Jews for ruining the world, attacked the Federal Reserve System for being run by Jews, attacked NRA as a plan to sovietize the U. S., referred to Franklin D. Roosevelt as "President Rosenfeld...
Last week Commander Pelley was not in Asheville when his press slumped into bankruptcy. He was reported in California, where the Silver Shirts are relatively strong in number. Asheville believed he would return to examine the financial ruins of his publishing house. But whether he did or not, Asheville knew it would hear of him again, for last week the special House of Representatives' committee chairmanned by Massachusett's McCormack announced that it would begin in Asheville shortly its investigation of Nazi propaganda...