Posts Tagged ‘William Dudley Pelley’

San Diego’s Crack Pot

22nd June

2011

written by Richard

C. Leon de Aryan

Shivering like a nudist in a rumble seat and leaving a trail of bayfront water behind him, C. Leon De Aryan, editor of The Broom, appeared at the police station today charging that five longshoremen had thrown him into the bay off the Municipal pier. –San Diego Sun, Nov. 24, 1936

Public hostility rarely bothered C. Leon de Aryan. The owner and publisher of the San Diego newspaper called The Broom craved attention of any kind and often received it from his provocative editorials denouncing organized labor, international bankers, Communists, Jews, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The story of a racist newspaper publisher, The San Diego Crack Pot.

Tags: anti-Semitism, C. Leon de Aryan, Constantine Legenopol, Lawrence Dennis, Percy J. Benbough, Robert Noble, sedition, The Broom, William Dudley Pelley

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Articles by Richard Crawford

The Silver Shirts

24th April

2011

written by Richard

There unquestionably is a concerted move on the part of un-American and radical groups to bring about the overthrow of the United States government. We have endeavored to get to the bottom of all such moves. –Congressman Charles Kramer, August 5, 1934.

The story of San Diego’s right-wing radicals of the 1930s, The Silver Shirts.