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...such fabulous voice as John McCormack's, either for the lyric subtleties of Mozart or the ripe Celtic emotionalism of Kathleen Mavourneen. But Downey has an exceptionally high, sweet voice, which he uses with a redolent Paddyism irresistible to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Knights of Columbus, Westbrook Pegler and most Irishmen, genuine or occasional. His voice is so high that he says of his choirboy period "in the olden days they would surely have brought...
...paraphrase Professor Hanson's quotation by Westbrook Pegler on Eleanor's solution to the plight of the white-collar worker, "What the white collar worker needs is a good laundry." Along this same line it is interesting to watch our room-mate struggle through his washing every Monday afternoon. He never can seem to get his paper collars to come out as well as his Kleenex does...
...Pegler complains that when he wrote ... in blame of Mr. Field, and in praise of Mr. Field's rival [Colonel McCormick], the Daily News omitted his column. This is true. I killed the columns myself. ... If he had written one-sidedly in praise of Field and in blame of McCormick, my decision would have been the same...
...Pegler insinuates that under our contract ... we are preventing him from expressing his views in Chicago during the political campaign. The insinuation is typical of what we have come to dislike and distrust in Pegler. He knows, for he has been so informed, that we shall be glad to release the column immediately. . . "Goodby, Mr. Pegler...
...York World-Telegram, the Cleveland Press and other Scripps-Howard papers omitted the Pegler column attacking Colonel Knox. Other Pegler subscribers, with no such well-timed kill order, ran the column. Secretary Knox died next...