Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief target of Hull's sizzling attack was Columnist Drew Pearson, who printed the charge that Hull and other Department of State officials were blindly hostile to Russia. Crackled the Secretary: "Monstrous and diabolical falsehoods...
Henry Ford threw down the gauntlet to a gossip columnist. Merry-Go-Rounder Drew Pearson had broadcast that 80-year-old Ford is not up to his job. Cried the wiry octogenarian: "I can lick him in anything he suggests. I never felt better in my life. I don't know how old or young this Pearson person is, or what shape he's in or what he has ever done in the way of athletics. But I'll meet him." Forty-five-year-old Pearson suggested a race-"with any vehicle, foot, bicycle, or Model...
Well, having been flushed to the surface, I might as well sing, spill the goods, come clean. Here's the full inside story, and the SERVICE NEWS is beating Pegler, Clapper, and Drew Pearson to it: Yale men have secretly banded together in order to wipe out for once and for all the Crimson Menace. Operating strictly under order from the Blue Square in New Haven, I revealed the intolerable conditions in the Ha'v'd Ya'd and got a DSC and a shiny new yo-yo from the PBY committee (Pour le Bettrement de Yale), Fifth Column Division...
...Department explained that the column had contained the writer's views on controversial political questions, and therefore had no place in an Army publication. The Department did not explain why this rule was not applied to Columnist Drew Pearson, who is also published in Roundup...
Irked, he called the Canadian Legation in Washington, asked Minister Counselor Leslie Bowles Pearson to appeal to President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt saw his point. Washington's first communique was revised from "Anglo-American" forces to mention "Canadian, British and U.S." forces. Canadian troops, said Mackenzie King, "are entitled to equality in all statements . . . made in reference to military service." The House of Commons cheered. Canadian troops are now mentioned in communiqués from Sicily...