Word: pegler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Terrible-tempered Westbrook Pegler proved to be too hot to handle last week for the New York Journal-American, his No. 1 outlet. It killed a Pegler column warning readers not to buy U.S. bonds, although the Washington. Times-Herald and some other papers thought it fit to print. Wrote Peg: "Any corporation . . . promoting the purchase of Government bonds on the pretense that such bonds are good investments, is either a party to a confidence game or a victim of stupid management. In either case I am not kidded...
...During World War II, the Treasury importuned me several times to act as runner for a swindle which it was operating . . . [i.e.) the sale of Government bonds]." But Pegler did not intend to make the same mistake again: "In honesty, I can't, because the value of the dollar is going steadily down . . . The dollar ... is so cheap now that it won't buy a meal in a second-rate restaurant ... Is it terribly unpatriotic of me to go on this way, disillusioning our people about Government bonds...
...damages. For good measure, Pearson demanded $250,000 for being "painfully grabbed by the neck and kicked in the groin" by McCarthy in their December brawl at Washington's Sulgrave Club. Pearson rounded off the suit by demanding $2.5 million more from McCarthy, Columnists Westbrook Pegler and Fulton Lewis Jr., the Washington Times-Herald, and seven other individuals, charging that they had conspired to hold him up to "public scorn and ridicule" and scare away potential sponsors for his radio program. It was Pearson's third suit against Pegler. He withdrew the first...
...just given Keane and the road show a mild clawing. Said Actor Keane: she ought to get married. When someone said that Critic Cassidy is married already (to ex-Stockbroker William Crawford), Keane snapped: "Well, then, why not have her divorced and get her married to Westbrook Pegler...
...Senator Joe McCarthy started out as a private brawl. But last week, after Adam Hats had announced that it was not renewing its contract as Pearson's radio sponsor, newsmen from all over the nation jumped in. The big gun on McCarthy's side was Westbrook Pegler, who has long been in & out of libel suits with Pearson himself. Said Pegler of his longtime foe: "That lying blackguard is my man, just as Harold Ickes was in his time. Santa Claus brought him to me. Pearson is a liar and a rogue and I will belt him through...