Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody guessed who was back of this clandestine, unmistakably Fascist publication: the goateed, vitriolic leader of the Hitler-aping Silvershirt Legion of America, investigated last year by the Dies Committee, William Dudley Pelley...
...such dangerous odors. Five years ago he returned from a trip to Germany with a list of Nazi sympathizers in the U. S., supplied him by a boastful Nazi. Dr. Birkhead called on some of the men on the list (which included Gerald Winrod, the Kansas messiah; William Dudley Pelley, head of the Fascist Silver Shirts; Harry Jung of Chicago; Colonel E. N. Sanctuary of New York), heard their arguments, and made up his mind that something nasty was brewing for democracy. He gave up his Unitarian church in Kansas City and started the Friends of Democracy...
Quick to attack this figure was jib-nosed John Jeremiah Pelley, president of A.A.R. Testifying before TNEC next day, he called Analyst Eastman's road-cost allocation an "astonishing assumption," defended "home owners, farmers and others who pay general taxes" against the implicit charge of paying less than their share. A.A.R.'s own conclusion: that vehicle owners should pay 75% of all road costs, Government the rest. Eastman's: "Their [the railroads'] contentions impress me as being carried to extreme limits." But Railroader Pelley also reminded his hearers why railroad and truck taxes cannot, should...
...replied Mr. Pelley, "and with my blessing . . . you've gone ahead and done a good job. If the Dies Committee goes ahead my work is done...
Promptly a Washington, D. C. police sergeant arrested Mr. Pelley. Convicted in 1935 for transgressing North Carolina's "blue sky" security law, he was charged with violating his parole. After weekending in the clink, Mr. Pelley was released under a $2,500 bond, determined to fight extradition. The Dies Committee, wiping its collective brow, was glad to hear that Mr. Pelley had been removed...