Word: peglerizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reading about the Cincinnati Enquirer-Westbrook Pegler feud [TIME, March 1], I noticed you termed the Enquirer "Democratic." After several years of reading the Enquirer, I've either gotten the wrong slant on things, or else TIME is wrong. About the only thing in the Enquirer that approaches being democratic is the comic section...
...Democratic Cincinnati Enquirer got fed up with the flap-jawed way some of its columnists were talking. In an editorial, it warned its readers that Westbrook Pegler and Walter Winchell often don't know what they're talking about...
...Pegler, the Enquirer complained, had noted U.S. efforts to contain Russia and had "depicted them all as incitements to war." A fine ferret of union graft and a "castigator of crooners," said the Enquirer, Peg "is not among the world's most noted statesmen. . . . His competence in matters of foreign policy, in other words, is scarcely comparable to that of Secretary Marshall [or] Senator Vandenberg...
Winchell took his scolding without a word. Not so Pegler, who was still muttering last week. "The Enquirer may not know," said Peg in self-defense, "that, as a young reporter, I saw many statesmen, diplomats and soldiers in Europe. I have seen most of them since...
...Enquirer, unimpressed, whacked him again: "We wonder how highly Pegler would regard this array of experience if it were presented by someone else. . . . We still think that Pegler's rather notable talents are much more usefully applied in fields where his competence and experience are less open to question...