Word: peglerizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daughter of Jim, made a white-tulle-and-camellia debut at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. In the receiving line, she accompanied herself by humming They're Either Too Young Or Too Old, did much of her handshaking with such oldsters as Morton Downey, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Westbrook Pegler, Elsa Maxwell, William Bullitt...
Roosevelt-hating Columnist Westbrook Pegler bluntly "explained" this genteel, political tug of war in a way that reflected no particular credit on anyone: "Lepke was the boss of a local of Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America ... the union of a man who is one of the President's favorite unioneers. ... If Dewey could get possession of Lepke, he might persuade him to tell the whole story of his murderous, racketeering career in exchange for a commutation of his death sentence to life in prison...
...recommendation: Westbrook Pegler...
Crownie's friend, Columnist Westbrook Pegler, offered to contribute to the auction the imaginary Pegler Collection of Indecent Postcards. It was Pegler who once parodied Crownie's conversational style as follows...
...State Department had refused Big Joe a passport to see how torpedoed seamen fare in Britain, Russia, North Africa. Curran shipped as a seaman, disappeared into wartime censorship. The New York World-Telegram's Westbrook Pegler, longtime Curran-comber (TIME, Aug. 30), attacked this "vacation," asked why the N.M.U. chief was not drafted...