Word: pearson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring to learn the ways of the Big Time, the earnest Louisiana farm boy, who had gone uninvited to the Yankee training camp five years before to beg Manager Joe McCarthy for a tryout, was completely overshadowed by the famed Yankee pitching roster of Lefty Gomez, Red Ruffing, Monte Pearson and a half dozen others...
Sunday before last, Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, speaking as a guest at the weekly unrehearsed Round Table discussion of the University of Chicago over the 58 stations of the NBC Red Network, remarked that proponents of Herbert Hoover were already active in Louisiana and Mississippi "buying up" delegates to the 1940 Republican National Convention...
...Hoover indignantly yelped at this "vicious personal slander and libel in which there is not the remotest possible truth," demanded an apology in the next Round Table broadcast. In Washington, Columnist Pearson stuck by his pea-shooters, remarked: "No intelligent person would construe my remarks to mean that Mr. Hoover personally was buying up Southern delegates . . . they are being rounded up by his political friends in the manner that politicians usually round up Negro and poor white Republicans in the solid South. . . . As to how that is done, I refer to Bascom Slemp and Perry Howard, who did valiant work...
This disclaimer may have satisfied Mr. Hoover, but it irked Columnist Pearson considerably to be thus roundly denied. Next day his attorney, Ernest Cuneo, wired Vice President Woodward, curtly labeling the denial "a statement . . . viciously attacking the professional integrity of my client," and winding up: "Unless proper apologies are made to Mr. Pearson, immediate legal proceedings will be instituted...
Columnists Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen in their Washington Merry-Go-Round last week exploded a story, backed by affidavits, about diversion of WPA man power and materials to private uses in Louisiana. Chief privateer mentioned was none other than Governor Richard Webster Leche (rhymes with flesh), 41, the burly New Orleans lawyer whom Huey Long on his deathbed named as his political heir...