Word: winrod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passionate lett r written to a friend by Salt Lake City's J. H. McKnight, a Mormon who always wore long flannel underwear in hot weather and had trouble with his spelling: "Oh, how I would love to strike hands with such nobelmen as Father Coughlin, Jearald Winrod, William Dudley Pelley .. . not to say Wheeler, Lindbergh the incomparable, Senator Nye and Walsh, and others too numerous to mention here. Oh, what I would give to be numbered with them, what an honor, what a rare prevelidge...
...list included William Randolph Hearst's friend William Griffin, violently anti-British publisher of the New York Enquirer; wild-eyed, red-haired Mrs. Elizabeth (Red Network) Billing, Gerald B. Winrod, publisher of the Defender, notorious preacher of racial and religious intolerance; Prescott Freeze Dennett, organizer of the Islands for War Debts Committee, operator of a one-man isolationist news service (an Army draftee, he was arrested in a St. Louis barracks); Nazi Agent George Sylvester Viereck, now in prison for failing to disclose in full his connection with the Nazi Government...
...Roberts, rotund managing editor of the Kansas City Star, told him: "If you manage to meet enough people, you're a cinch to be beaten next time." He did and he was. Reed stayed in political retirement until 1938, when he emerged to oppose rabble-rousing Rev. Gerald Winrod in the Republican Senatorial primary, went on to win the Senate seat...
...anti-Administration, anti-British (but not notably anti-Nazi) preacher of isolationism, last week nominated his own Hall of Fame-"a partial list of fearless Ameri-cans": 1) Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. 2) Father Charles E. Coughlin, of Royal Oak, Mich. 3) Gerald B. Winrod, anti-Semite, anti-Catholic editor of The Defender, Wichita, Kans. 4) Eleanor Patterson, publisher, Washington Times-Herald. 5) Elizabeth Billing, Chicago Red-baiter. 6) Joseph M. Patterson, publisher, the New York Daily News. 7) Congressman Martin Dies of Texas. 8) William Randolph Hearst. 9) The editors of the Brooklyn Tablet...
...movement," has a trained nose for such dangerous odors. Five years ago he returned from a trip to Germany with a list of Nazi sympathizers in the U. S., supplied him by a boastful Nazi. Dr. Birkhead called on some of the men on the list (which included Gerald Winrod, the Kansas messiah; William Dudley Pelley, head of the Fascist Silver Shirts; Harry Jung of Chicago; Colonel E. N. Sanctuary of New York), heard their arguments, and made up his mind that something nasty was brewing for democracy. He gave up his Unitarian church in Kansas City and started...