Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Dudley Pelley, onetime leader of the rabble-rousing Silver Shirts, now out on parole in Indiana after serving half of a 15-year federal sentence for sedition, had an old overhanging sentence commuted. He would not have to return to North Carolina to serve time for violating the state's blue-sky laws...
...Manhattan's Daily News, it was, said the colonel, "outstanding as the only supporter in the mayoral race of Vincent R. Impellitteri. Added Bertie': "They call him 'Impy.' I suggest he spell it: 'Im Pelley Terry,' so the Italians can take him for a 'Wop,' the English, so numerous in New York, for a Sassenach, and the Irish for a 'Turk.'" The colonel refused to be ruffled by the victory of international-minded Tom Dewey. It "is not a matter of remorse," said Bertie "because [Democrat Walter A.] Lynch...
Silver-Shirted Rabble-Rouser William Dudley Pelley, 59, was getting out of the Federal Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind. after serving about half of a 15-year sentence for sedition. Probable next stop: the state prison in Raleigh, N.C., where he has up to five years to serve on an old sentence under the blue sky laws...