Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other fish were caught and dropped into the pan to splutter, the Committee's appetite for Mr. Pelley waned. Then, three weeks ago, Representative Frank Hook of Michigan inserted into the Congressional Record certain letters which seemed to show that Chairman Martin Dies was friendly to the Silvershirts. Alleged author of the letters: Leader Pelley. Congressman Hook, opposed to continuation of the Dies Committee, waved this evidence under the nose of Congress. Almost immediately the let ters were branded as fake. David Mayne, Pelley agent in Washington, admitted forging them. Thereupon Mr. Hook withdrew his charges, grudgingly apologized...
...wagging his goatee, smiling with his teeth. "I am giving Martin Dies an absolutely clean bill of health." That gave the Committee something to think about. Flustered, they postponed their questioning until next day. Then, having stoked the fire and readied the frying pan, in they popped Mr. Pelley. But the hotter the fire, the more Mr. Pelley seemed to enjoy...
Quizzed on his fascistic Silvershirts, he boasted that his Legion had 25,000 members. Among his supporters he named John Richard Brinkley of Del Rio, Tex., goateed doctor who has made a fortune selling goat glands to impotent but hopeful men. Doc Brinkley lent him $5,000, said Mr. Pelley. His Legion, founded in 1933, "began propagandizing against the same things that this [the Dies] committee set out to expose," he confided smoothly, while the Committee glared and squirmed...
...call myself very much so," replied Mr. Pelley. "I say very freely that I am anti-Semitic...
...probably would, sir," answered Mr. Pelley...