Word: peglerizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who cultivates an attitude of chronic ferocity, gave some extraordinary advice...
...Wrote Pegler last week in the New York Journal-American and 300 other papers: "Counterbalancing the right to strike, the American citizen has a right not to strike [and the right] to ... break a strike . . . The non-striker or strikebreaker, being a law-abiding citizen, always deserves police protection . . . [He] also has a right to shoot to kill if he is attacked or threatened by a mob . . . Not enough pickets were killed by law-abiding citizens during the ... birth of the C.I.O...
With a straight face, the Tulsa Trades Council (A.F.L.) nominated a little group that it would like to see take the first rocket trip to the moon. Sample nominees: Westbrook Pegler ("because of his ability to report true facts"), H. V. Kaltenborn ("for his ability to accurately analyze new developments"), Fulton Lewis Jr. ("for his ability to expose shoddy administration...
...York Sun Columnist George E. Sokolsky cited bludgeon-wielding Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler as "one Of the most competent reporters in American journalism." Hearst's New York Journal-American ran a half-page promotion ad to be sure that no reader missed the compliment...
...Columnist Pegler got another kind of compliment from Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt. In her question & answer column in the Ladies' Home Journal, she was asked why her "big, strong American sons" didn't horsewhip Westbrook Pegler. Mrs. Roosevelt's reply: "Why should they bother to horsewhip a poor little creature like Westbrook Pegler? They would probably go to jail for attacking someone who was physically older and perhaps unable to defend himself. After all, he is such a little gnat on the horizon...