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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