The personal files of William Dudley Pelley, leader of the bitterly anti-Semitic Silver Shirts, were in the custody of the government today following seizures made yesterday by the United States Marshal’s office.
Such tell-tale evidence of conspiracy against the administration and the Jews as Pelley may have left behind him will be turned over to the McCormack Congressional
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