Word: peglerizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind him, on dry land, Seamari Joe's aggressive, left-wing union made more history. It threw the longest picket line of World War II (1,500 men) around the boxlike World-Telegram building in lower Manhattan to protest the labor-baiting writings of Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler...
...belted N.M.U. harder or more consistently than Columnist Pegler. He has pictured N.M.U. as a Communist cell attempting to convert all of U.S. labor; has accused Joe Curran of draft dodging. (Curran, married but childless, was deferred as an essential worker, i.e., labor leader.) But what most infuriated N.M.U.ers-who boil over at the mere mention of Pegler's sleeping-car first name-was the columnist's revival of the old scuttlebutt, repeatedly and officially denied, that U.S. merchant sailors mutinied at Guadalcanal...
Well, having been flushed to the surface, I might as well sing, spill the goods, come clean. Here's the full inside story, and the SERVICE NEWS is beating Pegler, Clapper, and Drew Pearson to it: Yale men have secretly banded together in order to wipe out for once and for all the Crimson Menace. Operating strictly under order from the Blue Square in New Haven, I revealed the intolerable conditions in the Ha'v'd Ya'd and got a DSC and a shiny new yo-yo from the PBY committee (Pour le Bettrement de Yale), Fifth Column Division...
Fred Beck's column of homespun advertising in the Los Angeles Times has as many readers as Westbrook Pegler's column. This intense reader following has made a $5 million enterprise of the Los Angeles Farmers Market, which less than ten years ago was a vacant lot and an idea...
...most substantial approvals of Pyle came from the Youngstown Vindicator, which used his column this spring when Columnist Westbrook Pegler was on vacation. When Pegler returned, the Vindicator kept Pyle...