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Among the favorite targets of In Fact was the National Association of Manufacturers.

Defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg, who subscribed to In Fact while an undergrad at Harvard, said, " I heard about the National Association of Manufacturers first from Seldes and more from Seldes than I ever heard again.

If you were to read the mainstream press, you'd hardly become aware that such organizations existed, that businessmen worked together to pursue their own interests.

" In fact also attacked Charles Lindbergh for his Nazi sympathies, the American Legion for helping to break strikes, and labeled many captains of industry as " native fascists.

" Consumer advocate Ralph Nader said, " used the word fascism to reflect an authoritarian state of mind that tended to stifle free speech and dissent and also tended to believe that might was right.