Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady at the train, arranged a luncheon, took her to see the Cannon textile mills 18 miles away, had Towel-Maker Charles Cannon explain how he treats 16,000 workers. Impressed, Mrs. Roosevelt nodded "My Day" approval in a way that would wound many a union man and flabbergast Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "In view of all this, which seems to meet high union standards, I was surprised to find that the mill was not unionized, but Mr. Cannon said they had always had good labor relations ever since his father had started the mill in '88." Charles Cannon gave...
...Columnist Raymond Clapper examined the record of Kaiser's trip to Washington, noted that there was nothing in writing to insure Kaiser's plan a chance, decided that Washington had insulted the American spirit. Wrote he in white anger...
...twenty years to walk into the Albany State House without even bothering to campaign. When 1944 rolls around, he will be a ready-made Presidential candidate. With the paternal blessings of Herbert Hoover and Alf Landon, and with support from Westbrook Pegler, the nation's most widely read columnist, Dewey will be the most seasoned piece of 1944 Republican timber...
...famous "dirty" clarinet had many of his listeners' feet tapping in time. Davison's cornet solos and Schraeder's piano barrelhouse also drew plenty of cheers from the crowd. But two Harvard musicians, Stu Grover '45, on drums, and Pamelia, whose saxophone playing George Frazier, Boston Herald swing columnist, called in "the Bud Freeman tradition," stayed right in there with them...
Clark Gable, 41, was all set to enlist as a private in the Army Air Forces. His aim: a gunner's post. Columnist Hedda ("The Gabbler") Hopper promptly announced that because of an old agreement this meant Robert Taylor and Spencer Tracy would also enlist at the same time. Meantime Gable m.c.'d a War Department short-wave broadcast for the armed forces abroad, helped Mather Field's Army Air Forces Lieut. Jimmy Stewart overwhelm goggle-eyed Torcheuse Dinah Shore, in Hollywood for a screen career...