Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politics on Platters. He had actually started his campaign in June when he began writing a column for Ohio newspapers. He distributed it without charge; 180 Ohio dailies and weeklies carried it. He also made a recording a week of his political observations and sent the platters to 40 Ohio radio stations...
Unemotional Editor McGill ran the Pegler column in its usual space, appended a tolerant editorial note: "We often get a bang out of some of Mr. Pegler's strange obsessions . . . Somehow it was not at all surprising to find him . . . using [Miss Mitchell's] death as a vehicle for rebuking the Roosevelts. We knew [her] well enough to know she made up her own mind . . . Certainly she would not [have been] swayed by the influence of an unwise, emotional Westbrook Pegler, an insensate Roosevelt-hater, whose column [may] have swayed and-deprived inferior minds...
That was too much for Monsignor Edward A. Freking, editor of the official archdiocesan weekly, the Catholic Telegraph-Register. Cried Monsignor Freking: "I could take Mildred Miller's whole column, change 25 words, and prove that people descended from apes." In an editorial in the Telegraph-Register last week, he threatened a Catholic boycott of the Enquirer if the American Weekly ("literary trash and blasphemous views") lived up to its advance billing...
Harrison kept right on crusading in his column ("At the Capitol'') in the New Mexican. He has put the finger on an attorney general who was drawing a salary as a corporation lawyef on the side, exposed an unpardoned felon who was serving in the state senate, complained about the potash industry's "free ride" until the legislature tripled its taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue...
Harrison kept right on crusading in his column ("At the Capitol'') in the New Mexican. He has put the finger on an attorney general who was drawing a salary as a corporation lawyef on the side, exposed an unpardoned felon who was serving in the state senate, complained about the potash industry's "free ride" until the legislature tripled its taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue...