Word: peglerizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Westbrook Pegler's sponsors as a national columnist was Secretary Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News (until three years ago it shared Pegler's basic syndicate contract with Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram). Recently the Daily News has omitted many Pegler columns. Last week Editor Paul Scott Mowrer explained (but not to his readers) why the Daily News had stopped printing them altogether: "We find that our own columnists are much more popular...
...Pegler columns (before his vacation in March) had deeply embarrassed the News. They had: 1) blasted at Marshall Field HI, whose Chicago Sun is an important client of the Daily News Building; 2) given left-handed praise to the News's and the Sun's mighty adversary, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick...
Westbrook Pegler (174 papers, circ. 10,000,000) has a literary skill "beyond question, but very few of his methods are consistent with any attempt at honesty, either emotional or intellectual. . . . They make one curious to know whether [he] is not aware that venom is a more marketable commodity than reason. . . . His readers cherish his cholers. . . . His circulation has risen with his blood pressure." Praised: the Peglerizing of Racketeers Willie Bioff, George Scalise...
Columnist Fisher is amused by the fact that in 1937 Pegler himself took one of the most eloquent swings at columnizing: "Of all the fantastic fog shapes that have risen off the swamp of confusion since the big war, the most futile . . . the most pretentious is the deep-thinking, hair-trigger columnist or commentator who knows all the answers offhand and can settle great affairs with absolute finality. . . ." Since writing this, says Fisher, there are "very few answers [Pegler] has not attempted to supply offhand. He is currently concerned with postwar planning (he's agin it) and with interpreting...
...Leader's editors and staff (two girls), beaming over anniversary messages, recall amusedly one last year from a prominent anti-Communist whom the paper has often attacked. It read: "I find myself puzzled by its temperateness and very good humor-Westbrook Pegler...