Word: peglerizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time drew near for Roosevelt-hating Columnist Westbrook Pegler to say farewell to Scripps-Howard and hello to Hearst (TIME, Aug. 28), he became curiously engrossed in matters which seemed far removed from his everyday peeves. His mind's eye filled with tall clipper ships crowding on sail on the China run, with silks and sandalwood and opium, gongs and the firebreath of dragons. In New York and Boston libraries he delved long in old tomes: Lawrence Kearny, Sailor Diplomat; The Clipper Ship Era; The Opium Trade; The Opium Clipper. Could Peg be softening up, seeking escape from...
...Roosevelt's autobiography," wrote Pegler (referring to This is My Story by the President's wife which goes into detail about the family of the President's mother), ". . . is one of my favorite books and every time I dip into it I am tantalized by the author's iron reticence concerning the sources of the Delano fortune. Now I think I understand. The old gent, Warren Delano, President Roosevelt's grandfather, was an old-time opium smuggler, a member of something rather like our own Rum Row which operated off the New York coast...
Quoting from his sources, Pegler proceeded to detail and document his charge. Warren Delano, partner in the American firm of Russell & Co., "was one among American merchants who, with British merchants, were imprisoned by the Chinese in the walled-in area of Canton, the event which led to the so-called Opium War." The "vessels owned by ... Russell & Co. soon controlled the opium trade and became known as opium clippers." "Russell & Co.," was apparently "the only American . . . firm engaged in the traffic." Concluded Pegler: "Delano died in 1898, leaving a personal estate of $1,338,000. . . . When the President...
...Said Pegler: "I am very happy about it. I got another job and a better one. Roy Howard and I have always been good friends and we're parting good friends...
Said Roy Howard: "The Scripps-Howard parting with Pegler is a symptom of a journalistic problem that arises when a writer is given carte blanche to express himself with complete and uncontrolled freedom. . . . This problem . . . concerns . . . journalistic technique and editorial judgment in determining how loudly and how frequently a writer may sound a single note without upsetting a newspaper's editorial balance. . . . Scripps-Howard has never exercised control over the subject matter or the opinions of Mr. Pegler as they appear in his column, but we have been unable to satisfy many of our readers on this point...