Word: pegler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Hearst's New York Journal-American Westbrook Pegler's terrible-tempered column was conspicuously missing one day last week. Reason: as often happens, the column was deemed too hot to print...
Three weeks ago, while he was on a European trip, Pegler reported that in Rome he had delivered an eye-opening report to the Vatican's "highest authority" on union labor and the "criminality and autocratic rule of American unions." His anonymous authority was so impressed with what he had to say that "he said it would be beneficial if I would write for the Holy Father a statement of the truth in care of the Papal Secretary of State...
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...celebrate his homecoming after a four-month tour of Europe, Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week penned a "Patriotic Pome" for his column. While it failed to prove conclusively either that travel is broadening or that Peg is even a bottom-rung poetaster, it did give him a chance for a rare and sardonic bow to his critics. Excerpts...
...taken [him] to task"-and why? Just because he had reported when he was in Europe recently what any fool could plainly see: that U.S. union men are working with the Government to deliver Western Europe into the hands of socialism. The people who dare to disagree with Pegler's choleric omniscience are no ordinary fools. Nevertheless, in this case, said Peg, the facts should be plain, even "should be known to the shallow politicians of the Legion in their jealous competition for trashy publicity to promote their insurance business, their public-relations mills and their paltry aspirations...