Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deatherage, who had planned a fascist coup, as a potential spy who had risen to be an executive engineer in one of our most important naval construction projects. The Navy fired Deatherage while Dies sulked in his office. He has done nothing about the Ku Klux Klan, General Moseley, Pelley, McWilliams, all avowed fascists. In four years Congress hasn't deemed it wise to pass any one of the nine bills offered by the Dies Committee. Why then should it grant another...
...started the Galahad Press in Asheville, N.C., to publish the New Liberator. The Press lasted four years, and Publisher Pelley was tried, convicted and fined in 1935 for violating North Carolina Blue Sky laws by selling stock: 1) in an insolvent company which he had represented as being in sound condition; 2) without registering as a securities dealer in North Carolina. On Pelley's promise to be good, the sentence was suspended...
...been in Paradise for seven minutes can be expected to pay much attention to the animadversions of a temporal court. William Pelley went on organizing his Silver Shirts, an anti-Jewish, anti-Communist organization. In August 1939 the Dies Committee heard about him, sent him a subpoena. Pelley disappeared. The Superior Court of Asheville ordered him to reappear, on charges of violating his suspended sentence. Wherever he was, in Paradise or simply off the premises, Pelley lay doggo...
...months later, like a falling angel, he suddenly appeared before the Dies Committee. Loud were Mr. Pelley's praises of its good work. Embarrassed, bewildered, the Committee shushed and shooed Mr. Pelley away. Outside the committee-room door, police arrested him on a warrant from North Carolina...
After fighting extradition for more than a year, Pelley finally gave in. Superior Court Judge F. Don Phillips sentenced him to serve a 2-3-year sentence for violation of the Blue Sky law; to serve, concurrently, the 1-2-year suspended sentence handed down in 1935. Even though Prisoner Pelley was already under $10,000 bond, Judge Phillips directed that he be clapped securely in the county jail. With that kind of shirt and that kind of paradisal record, you could not be too sure of Mr. Pelley...