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Columnist Westbrook Pegler led his column: "Now, just a minute. Wait a minute!" New York City's waddly Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia griped that the U. S. couldn't even protect Coney Island...
Columnist Westbrook Pegler, reporting the thoughts of his General Public character, George Spelvin, American, put the worry clearly: "He is glad he will not be the next President of the United States...
...girls by George Petty. Despite its coy title. The Bedside Esquire contains no art-teasers; it is solid print. Among the 77 items: stories or articles, mainly second-rate, by the late D. H. Lawrence and Thome Smith, by John Dos Passes, Erskine Caldwell, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Westbrook Pegler; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, one of the most ambitious and psychologically the most painful of Hemingway's stories; a wide-open Ring Lardner razz of wrestling ("Come on, Alexis; take me. Anything but a toehold."); Helen Brown Norden's famous Latins Are Lousy Lovers-which is less interesting...
...Building Service Employees' International Union (with a membership of some 70,000 charwomen, chambermaids, elevator operators, window washers), a $25,000-a-year salary, an unlimited expense account. A little-known figure he might have remained, had not crusty, crusading Columnist Westbrook Pegler (who last fortnight got William Bioff, boss of A. F. of L. studio labor in Hollywood, sent to jail in Illinois to serve out an 18-year-old sentence for pandering) grown curious about Mr. Scalise...
Last January, Pegler wrote in an open letter to A. F. of L. President William Green: "I am going to tell you today that the head of one of your big international unions was sentenced to Atlanta Penitentiary for four years and six months for white slavery. . . . The man I mean is George Scalise ... a criminal of the vilest type." Thick & fast followed Pegler accusations that Mr. Scalise was a racketeer, had acquired a 27-room mansion out of his savings. "What have the New York police and District Attorney Tom Dewey's investigators...