Word: peglerizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urgent, crusading atmosphere the delegates were increasingly uncomfortable. They could no longer read the newspapers with any enjoyment for all the important political columnists were daily comparing the nomination of anyone but Willkie to the Fall of France-Ray Clapper, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Krock, Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann, Westbrook Pegler, Hugh Johnson. Even the coldest, toughest of all, nail-hard Frank Kent told them flatly in his old-shrew style that, while Herbert Hoover was the best man, Wendell Willkie was the only winning candidate...
...International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes and Moving Picture Machine Operators) had convened. Among its bigwigs are, or were: Nick Dean (known to Chicago police as Nick Circella), Willie Bioff. Convicted once of assault with intent to murder, Nick has been arrested for robbery, stealing automobiles. After Columnist Westbrook Pegler's recent acrimonious cam paign, Willie Bioff was cast into jail to serve out an old sentence for pandering...
...faces a Federal charge of income-tax evasion when he gets out. Fumed Pegler, the whole union is "A vicious racket preying on the rank and file of American worked...
...Greenpish-tushed Mr. Pegler, told I. A. T. S. E. it could be sure of his sup port,"everywhere, anywhere and all of the time." The union passed a resolution which said: "Be it firmly resolved...
...cigar smoke still in his clothes, considered, agreed to the first two, hedged on the third. At week's end, valiant Mr. Dubinsky led the garment workers back anyway, deciding apparently that he could fight for his third point better from within than from without. Said Pegler: "The garment workers . . . have begun a fight against . . . criminals in organized labor, and David Dubinsky will deserve credit for the eventual victory." Mr. Green was still popular enough to get kissed by lady delegates, but in A. F. of L. it was Mr. Dubinsky who was making the good news...