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However, there is also another side to the group, or so it would appear. George Seldes, the muckracking journalist of the 1940's, called the Sentinels "the anti-Semitic enemy of child labor laws" (Seldes, 183) and "the anti-Semitic wing of the first really important American Fascist movement." (Seldes, 154) During a 1936 US Senate investigation into lobbying, the committee discovered a correspondence between a member and the Sentinels president in which the latter "declared [that] the 'Jewish threat' to the United States was a 'real one' and added that 'I am doing what I can as an officer of the Sentinels." (NYT 4/18/1936). The former replied that "the 'old-line Americans of $1200 a year want a Hitler'." (Ibid) However, "[Sentinels President Alexander] Lincoln later denounced all forms of autocratic government, "whether they be communism, bolshevism, fascism, or Hitlerism" and the commander-in-chief of the Jewish War Veterans wrote to Lincoln that after investigation his organization had concluded that Lincoln did not "entertain any antipathy against the Jewish people or any racial minority" but the harm had been done to the [Liberty] League by the attitudes and association suggested by the Black [Senate] investigation. (Wolfskill 233) Although the incident itself may have been a minor chapter in the history of the organization, it was its largest source of press coverage and seems to be the only source for historians' vitriolic accusations of anti-Semitism.