Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he understood to number 18,000, might fill the tanker gap. But the tank cars were elusive. He did not know where they were, whether they were idle, how they could be put to work. Neither Transportation Defense Commissioner Ralph Budd nor American Association of Railroads President John Pelley could tell him. The Senators decided to get hold of Messrs. Budd and Pelley, track the tank cars to their lair...
...Association of American Railroads President Pelley's contention that the industry should yank 20,000 idle tank cars off sidings, the oilmen replied that these cars were a normal reserve required for coming peak movements. They questioned whether the railroads had the motive power to haul any more tank cars, and suggested that a better solution was to use present equipment more efficiently, and to use more tank trucks on short hauls...
...logical playmate for Fascist Pelley was Carl Losey. He joined Indiana's Ku Klux Klan in its heyday in 1923. Klansman Losey sported the first bulletproof vest in Indiana, served as a personal bodyguard for Imperial Grand Dragon David Curtis Stephenson, who was convicted of second-degree murder at Noblesville in 1925, is now serving a life term in the penitentiary. Fiftyish Carl Losey looks ten years younger, always carries a heavy-calibre revolver. Graduate of no law school, he is a member of the Indiana...
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...
...Noblesville, Metaphysician Pelley's silver-colored car became a familiar sight. Frequently seen too were the Connecticut license plates of his friend from Darien, George B. Fisher, who last year told the Dies Committee he had donated $20,000 to the Silvershirts in 18 months. Newsman Edward Throm of the Indianapolis Star discovered that the old box factory had been deeded not to Losey but to Agnes M. Henderson, named by the Dies Committee as Pelley's secretary...