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English P. Character Assassination. T., Th. at 10. Assistant Professor W. M. Pegler. Styles of insult, derogation and condescension...
...always, as a kind of counterpoint, there were the attacks on the Roosevelts. One of the gentler assaults, which Author Bendiner wisely reprints, is a priceless parody of Eleanor's "My Day" column by Westbrook Pegler...
...aide, Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, whose father Josephus had been Roosevelt's boss as Secretary of the Navy, makes this claim in his new book The Time Between the Wars. The story of the romance is not exactly new. Columnist Westbrook Pegler insinuatingly linked F.D.R. with Lucy in the 1940s as part of his vendetta against the Roosevelts. In The Crisis of the Old Order, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote that "Eleanor may have sensed something" about her husband's "friendly affection" for Lucy, whom Schlesinger described as "a sweet, womanly person, somewhat...
None of the jurors had ever read books or articles by Elizabeth Bentley, Whittaker Chambers, Louis Budenz, J. B. Matthews, Herbert Philbrick, William F. Buckley Jr., Gerald L. K. Smith, Westbrook Pegler, Dan Smoot, Robert Welch, Dr. Fred Schwarz or Dr. George Benson, or listened to radio programs conducted by Fulton Lewis Jr., John T. Flynn, Life Line, Facts Forum, Clarence Manion's Forum, or the 20th Century Reformation Hour...
Baruch and Harry Truman, two strong-willed men whose personalities were bound to clash, finally parted ways in 1948. In an angry outburst that was never meant to see print-but was nonetheless published by Columnist Westbrook Pegler-Baruch at that time blistered Truman as "a rude, uncouth, ignorant man." Truman, for his part, was more restrained. "His concern," he wrote of Baruch in his memoirs, "was really whether he would receive public recognition. He had always seen to it that his suggestions and recommendations, not always requested by the President, would be given publicity...