William Dudley Pelley, leader of the anti-Semitic Silver Legion, whom the Dies Committee has been seeking unsuccessfully for a year, made a surprise appearance in Washington today to deny before ...

William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirt chief, ex-stock swindler and metaphysician, calmly informed the Dies committee and a hushed roomful of spectators today that he advocated “disenfranchising te ...

Few have been more vitriolic than goat-bearded William Dudley Pelley, leader of The Silvershirt Legion of America. Last June, one of the Committee’s investigators, Robert B. Barker, investigated ...