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Once upon a time William Dudley Pelley was a newspaper man in Vermont. Later he was a spiritualist. Since January 1933 he has occupied the exalted post of commander and promoter of the silver-shirted Silver Legion (claimed membership: 100,000). Galahad Press published Liberation, a weekly magazine with which Shirtman Pelley publicized Silver Shirt ideals, attacked Jews for ruining the world, attacked the Federal Reserve System for being run by Jews, attacked NRA as a plan to sovietize the U. S., referred to Franklin D. Roosevelt as "President Rosenfeld...
Last week Commander Pelley was not in Asheville when his press slumped into bankruptcy. He was reported in California, where the Silver Shirts are relatively strong in number. Asheville believed he would return to examine the financial ruins of his publishing house. But whether he did or not, Asheville knew it would hear of him again, for last week the special House of Representatives' committee chairmanned by Massachusett's McCormack announced that it would begin in Asheville shortly its investigation of Nazi propaganda...
...wind blasted the overhead cables from the pantographs of the New York, New Haven & Hartford trains. Service between Boston and New York was from one to 14 hr. late. The New Haven's stranded passengers were no worse off than President John Jeremiah Pelley, marooned in his office car at Devon, Conn. With him was a party of railway officials who had been attending a conference in Boston. After waiting four hours for the line to clear to New York, President Pelley & friends turned back to New Haven...
...railroads, where the division between operating and financial management is sharp, the president is almost always an oldtime railroad man?viz. Pelley, Baldwin, Williamson, Budd. Storey. Rail chairmen are usually bankers or lawyers. Robert S. Lovett of the U.P. was its counsel for five years. Financier Harold Stirling Vanderbilt heads the C. & N. W. as chairman, just as Financier Arthur Curtiss James heads Western Pacific...
...climb from one major company to another. Within a big system there sometimes is a definite succession: In the case of Illinois Central the president is usually trained in the presidency of subsidiary Central of Georgia, although this was not true of the last Georgia Central president, John Jeremiah Pelley, who became head of New York, New Haven & Hartford...