Word: needler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter Winchell, Broadway's No. 1 needler, had broadcast a blast ("damn fools") at last fall's voters who had voted for isolationist Congressmen (TIME, Feb. 22). Outraged Congressmen talked of an investigation of Winchell's Navy service. To stop the bad publicity for the Navy, Frank Knox this week announced that the Navy's best-known lieutenant commander had been put on inactive duty. Michigan's bitter Congressman Clare Hoffman, who had often been Winchellacked, chortled: "No longer will Navy men wince at the spectacle of a Broadway gossiper sporting a lieutenant commander...
Some time later Winchell calmed down sufficiently to hear the news that the great needler had been needled, to the hilt. Blue Network wags had concocted the phony item to celebrate the gossipist's completion of ten years on the air for the same sponsor...
...Export Control Administration, where a staff of 350 has long been mapping a preclusive buying campaign under Brigadier General Russell L. Maxwell. No American claimed credit. But it represented some smooth, discreet work on the part of the State Department, RFC, and the No. 1 needler for economic warfare, Leon Henderson...