Word: vierecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shambles. Slowly, surely, Author Carlson learned every trick and subterfuge of American fascism. He adopted the name "George Pagnanelli," modeled his speech, clothes and gestures on those of a youthful Italian, became a trusted lieutenant of Yorkville's Joe McWilliams, and a salesman for Nazi agent George Sylvester Viereck's Flanders' Hall Publishing Company. He was made a captain (Grand Central District) in the underground Army of Christ, alias the Iron Guard, alias the Midtown Sporting Club ("interested in shooting rabbits, see?"), alias the American Phalanx (PAX for short "In Latin it means peace...
...Supreme Court upset this week the conviction of George Sylvester Viereck, self-assured German propagandist whom a Federal District Court jury last March found guilty of failing to tell the State Department all about his doings...
Grounds for the Supreme Court's action were technical: under amendments to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, the Government had tried ex post facto to bring the German-born American to account for political activities. Viereck, author and journalist, was sentenced to prison for two to six years, fined $1,500 and costs. Now his case is remanded to the lower court; he is under indictment on charges of sedition and conspiracy to undermine the morale of the armed forces...
Chief Justice Stone, who wrote this week's five-to-two* decision, sharply scolded the prosecuting attorney for his conduct during Viereck's trial. Said Stone: "In his closing remarks to the jury he (William Power Maloney, Special Assistant to the Attorney General) indulged in an appeal wholly irrelevant to any facts or issues in the case, the purpose and effect of which could only have been to arouse passion and prejudice. The United States Attorney . . . is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law, the twofold aim of which is that guilt shall...
...disseminate such propaganda, some of which even was inserted into the Congressional Record and then mailed out as Congressional Record "reprints"; that Congressman Fish's secretary, George Hill, later jailed for perjury (TIME. March 2), was serving as handyman for a propaganda ring managed by George Sylvester Viereck and Dennett...