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William Dudley Pelley (March 12, 1890 – June 30, 1965) was an American fascist activist, journalist, writer and occultist, noted for his support of German dictator Adolf Hitler during the Great Depression and World War II. [1] Pelley came to prominence as a writer, winning two O. Henry Awards and penning screenplays for Hollywood films.
Pelley disbanded the organization soon after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. [ 22 ] On January 20, 1942, Pelley was sentenced to serve two to three years in prison by Superior Court Judge F. Don Phillips, in Asheville, North Carolina, for violating terms of probation of a 1935 conviction for violating North Carolina security laws.
The Christian Party was an American fascist political party which was founded by William Dudley Pelley in 1935. [2] He chose 16 August 1935 as the Christian Party's founding date, because it was a so-called "pyramid date". [3] The party can be considered the political wing of Pelley's paramilitary organization, the Silver Legion of America.
It appeared shortly after the founding of several smaller groups, including the Friends of New Germany and the Silver Legion of America, founded in 1933 by William Dudley Pelley and the Free Society of Teutonia. After March 1, 1938, membership in the German-American Bund was only open to American citizens of German descent.
Torment is a 1924 American silent crime drama film produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by Associated First National.This film stars Bessie Love, Owen Moore, and Jean Hersholt.
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William Dudley Pelley, fascist activist and Chief of the pro-Nazi Silver Shirts of America, ran on the ballot for the Christian Party in Washington State with Willard W. Kemp Jr. as his Vice-President, but won fewer than two thousand votes. Pelley would later be convicted of sedition and sentenced to 15 years in prison.