Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Churchill himself was nearly hurt. On Tooting Bee Common, Michael Gloor Le Pelley, 17, tossed a lit firecracker at the Prime Minister's face. Momentarily staggered, Churchill told police "not to hurt the little fool...
...Victor Broenstrupp, alias the Duke of St. Saba, alias Count Cherep-Spiridovich, etc. Nine of the defendants were already interned or in jail. They arrived by police van. Among them: famed, shrewd Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck, good friend of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; the Silver Shirts' William Dudley Pelley; onetime Bundleader Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze...
...written to a friend by Salt Lake City's J. H. McKnight, a Mormon who always wore long flannel underwear in hot weather and had trouble with his spelling: "Oh, how I would love to strike hands with such nobelmen as Father Coughlin, Jearald Winrod, William Dudley Pelley .. . not to say Wheeler, Lindbergh the incomparable, Senator Nye and Walsh, and others too numerous to mention here. Oh, what I would give to be numbered with them, what an honor, what a rare prevelidge...
...Chicago last week John J. Pelley, head of the Association of American Railroads, told the railroad executives some of the facts of wartime life...
When the first (Ickes) East Coast oil shortage raised its head last fall, John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads, claimed that the railroads could muster 20,000 tank cars and haul 200,000 barrels of oil to the coast daily. Skeptics doubted it. Last week the railroads were doing better than that. In 44,000 tank cars they delivered at the seaboard an average of 600,000 barrels of oil daily-nearly half the East Coast's total consumption...