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Before Westbrook Pegler could open his mouth, the White House gave out the news: Franklin Roosevelt had been to Hyde Park and was back on the job. Pegler had said that next time he heard of a blacked-out Presidential trip to Hyde Park, he would defy censorship and report it (TIME, March 5). He just didn't hear of it until he read it in a newspaper. But if Pegler got cheated out of some agreeable notoriety, he did get something which he and many U.S. editors wanted: a slight easing up of an absurd censorship. The White...
...those people who can take Pegler or leave him alone: I have to take him! Day after day I have to take him, and I'm tired of it. You see I am. Your Proofreader, E.S.H...
Last week's Pegler balloting brought out as many votes as a Tallahassee city election. Final score: keep Pegler, 637; dump him, 551. Having given Pegler an un-Peglerian (fair) trial, the Democrat said that it would go on publishing the column...
...wrote Indignant Citizen to the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat. Indignant Citizen had been roused by a characteristic Peglerian display of calculated bad temper, in which Pegler accused Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal of "a dangerous conspiracy . . . to abolish the freedom of the whole people." The Tallahassee paper, well aware that everybody talks about Pegler but nobody does anything about him, said it would take a vote if enough readers demanded one. The demands quickly filled three columns. Among them...
That would make it easy for Indignant Citizen to follow blustery Pegler's latest scheme to win enemies & influence circulation: a one-man campaign to smash the voluntary wartime code of censorship, which all U.S. newspapers adhere to. Away with secrecy on the President's movements, said Pegler; next time Franklin Roosevelt goes to Hyde Park, I'll say so (if I find out about...