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...Hercules might have told him, a man cannot be too careful about his shirts. No Hercules in any sense, William Dudley Pelley might well have felt last week that he had unwarily donned the shirt of Nessus. Just because he favored silver shirts, Mr. Pelley was handed a couple of years in jail...
...Pelley, goat-bearded author, publisher, mystic, founder of the Silvershirt Legion of America, had quite an experience. The way he tells it, he died and went to eternity for seven minutes. The following year he was "inspirationally instructed" that "when a certain young house painter comes to the head of the German people, then do you take that as your time symbol for bringing . . . the Christian Militia into the open...
Civilian Defense Director LaGuardia went home from Washington this week so confident of no shortage that he said even the nightly curfew on gasoline stations might soon be withdrawn. President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads told a Senate Committee he could have the 20,000 cars rolling in a week or two, said 200,000 barrels a day was a conservative estimate of what could haul from Texas to the East. Since the highest estimate of the shortage is 174,000 barrels a day, that would mean the oil drought was over...
...just befuddled the public, long warned of gasless Sundays, and threatened with arrest for smoky exhausts or jackrabbit starts. But it did not befuddle Petroleum Coordinator Harold Ickes or his deputy, Ralph K. Davies, vice president of Standard Oil of California. It just infuriated them, the more so because Pelley is a super-optimist from way back. From the Maritime Commission's own report, Davies promised to show that only 17 - not 26 - tankers were in Latin American ports, that seven of the 17 were already in use, and that only three of the remainder were undamaged and usable...
...railroad cars - that talk made Coordinator Davies twice as mad. Since June he had been needling the defense Transportation Division to find them. New Dealers believed Pelley's surplus was strictly a product of the slide rule; i.e., that he was figuring a surplus of 20,000 if all round trips were speeded up to 20 days. No, said the A.A.R. stubbornly, we mean idle tank cars sitting at sidings for weeks at a time. A questionnaire had revealed them a year ago, a May survey had substantiated the number, and so had a "random" survey...