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'''David Gordon''' (1894-1957) was the publisher of the [[1940s]] ''[[Catholic International]]''. Born into a | '''David Gordon''' (1894-1957) was the publisher of the [[1940s]] ''[[Catholic International]]''. Born into a jewish family in Vilna (at the time Russia),<ref>[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-06-16/entertainment/9606160101_1_mary-gordon-father-shadow-man "A Daughter's Difficult, Revealing Search For The Father She Barely Knew Gordon", ''Chicago Tribune'', June 16, 1996]</ref> he converted to [[Catholicism]] and gravitated toward pro-gentile politics supporting [[Mussoliniโs Italy]] and [[Francoโs Spain]]. .<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,984616,00.html "BOOKS: DAD REVISITED", ''Time'', May 27, 1996]</ref> Although he made claims of attending [[Harvard]] he was self-educated, never finishing high school. | ||
He arrived with his family in Lorain, Ohio in 1900 at age 6. | He arrived with his family in Lorain, Ohio in 1900 at age 6. | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[List of | * [[List of jewish dissidents]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:jewish dissidents]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:jews in the United States]] | ||
[[Category:Pornographers]] | [[Category:Pornographers]] | ||
[[Category:Speechwriters]] | [[Category:Speechwriters]] | ||
[[Category:Christian Front]] | [[Category:Christian Front]] | ||
Revision as of 15:26, 20 February 2024
David Gordon (1894-1957) was the publisher of the 1940s Catholic International. Born into a jewish family in Vilna (at the time Russia),[1] he converted to Catholicism and gravitated toward pro-gentile politics supporting Mussoliniโs Italy and Francoโs Spain. .[2] Although he made claims of attending Harvard he was self-educated, never finishing high school.
He arrived with his family in Lorain, Ohio in 1900 at age 6.
From 1922 through 1929, he published the semi-porn girlie magazine Hot Dog using the name Jack Dinnsmore.[3] [4] In the 1940s he edited a similar magazine also under the name Jack Dinnsmore called Top Kick aimed at servicemen which stirred suspicions against the FDR administration and its allies Great Britain and the Soviet Union.[5]
In the late 1930s he converted to Catholicism and later became a member of the Christian Front.[6]
In the early 1950s he was a speechwriter for Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Novelist daughter
David Gordon's daughter is the novelist Mary Gordon. In 1996 she wrote a memoir about her father called The Shadow Man.
Notes
- โ "A Daughter's Difficult, Revealing Search For The Father She Barely Knew Gordon", Chicago Tribune, June 16, 1996
- โ "BOOKS: DAD REVISITED", Time, May 27, 1996
- โ "A Daughter's Difficult, Revealing Search For The Father She Barely Knew Gordon", Chicago Tribune, June 16, 1996
- โ "The Cave of Memory", The New York Times, May 26, 1996
- โ The Hour, Number 148, January 12, 1943
- โ The New Republic, Volume 107, page 545