Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More dangerous than these groups to future Republican foreign policy are those anti-democratic forces that have attached themselves to the G.O.P. bandwagon during the last two or three years. The Hitler-sympathizing leaders in this country, from Coughlin to Pelley, have joined Republican ranks at election time thinking that the best way to foster their cause, for the inoment, was to back the most isolationist major Party. This was a marriage few Republicans liked, and now, at least for the time being, they have broken it. But these same insidious forces will be watchfully waiting to use the Party...
Four men jumped out of a car beside a house in Darien, Conn., banged on the door. A dignified, goat-tufted little man peered out. William Dudley Pelley was under arrest...
...Silver Shirts, who once boasted that he was "the first to come out openly and unabashedly for the policies of Adolf Hitler." Sentenced to prison three months ago for violating North Carolina's blue-sky laws governing sales of securities (TIME, Feb. 2), Führer Pelley was out under $10,700 bail, waiting an appeal...
...even give him time to shave. They hustled him off to New Haven, charged him with sedition. In a Silver Shirt magazine, The Galilean, two months after Pearl Harbor, Pelley had written: "The typical American . . . gloats when any of the Axis powers reports success abroad-even against our own forces." Pinched, he pouted: "There hasn't been a damn thing in the magazine that Boake Carter, 'Ironpants' Johnson, Father Coughlin and many others haven't also said...
Meanwhile Francis Biddle's agents became busier than bird dogs. Silver Shirt Pelley was not the only bird they flushed. Several native-born Axis lovers were on the list...