Word: peglerizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wisdom & Poison. Nudging these working newsmen for space were big-name specialists, with varying claims to international wisdom: Westbrook Pegler, George Fielding Eliot, Ludwig Bemelmans, Drew Pearson, Ely Culbertson, Orson Welles. Mixed in were avowed propagandists, ranging from Edgar Ansel Mowrer (who was pleased to call the conference "the most important human gathering since the Last Supper") to the New York Daily News's poison penman John O'Donnell. Even before the conference opened, O'Donnell said that "nothing ever was staged in this generation on such a scale of mass hypocrisy and global double cross...
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...
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...