Word: peglerized
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...Prague, Czechoslovakia, Columnist Westbrook Pegler summed up his impressions: ". . . The show served two very useful purposes. It prevented, for the time being at least, a brutal raid on the German Jews. ... It also vindicated the contention of those who opposed American participation that the Nazis could not be trusted to refrain from political and military propaganda...
...Passion Play, grew excited over radio accounts, went over to Garmisch to see what they were all about. An expert winter sportsman, he watched the fancy skaters, wagged his grey beard with approval when Germany's Karl Schafer got the gold medal. ¶U. S. Columnist Westbrook Pegler arrived from London, reasoned that the miserable showing by the U. S. might be a benefit in disguise. Wrote he: "If the trip had been called off, the firm-jawed, clean-limbed, clear-eyed American athletes would have felt that they had been denied a great honor and privilege...
Wrote United Feature's tart, smart Columnist Westbrook Pegler few weeks ago: "There is something very imprudent not to say brutal about the record of the Roosevelt boys who have figured in traffic cases. Here is a country with an annual death list of 39,000 in automobile accidents trying earnestly to bring the figures down, and here are the sons of the No. 1 Citizen earning a joint reputation as the reckless irresponsibles of the open road who don't give a damn what they do because their daddy will fix it up. Everybody has to grow...
...postscript to his novel Author Cobb announced that characters, units and places were fictitious. For proof "that such things happened" he referred readers to, among other sources, the issue of Crapouillot which Columnist Pegler discovered last week. Characteristically, the magazine names real characters, units, places...
...General Foods Corp., likes to speak his mind on business and politics. Sometimes Mr. Hutton's phraseology lets him in for public trouble. Last summer, in sounding off against soak-the-rich taxes, he declared that today he considered himself "70% slave and 30% free." Thereupon Columnist Westbrook Pegler mused: "This undoubtedly is true on the basis of his tax returns, but there is no denying that such slavery has its little compensations. Mr. Hutton's slave quarters in Palm Beach might be called a model cabin. His 16,000-acre patch in South Carolina is sufficient...