Word: peglerizing
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...short story. Pegler went off halfcocked. Four days later he publicly ate crow...
About that character portrait of Westbrook Pegler opposite Joe Curran's in the August 30 issue of TIME and which Pegler's [newspaper] column . . . implies that you stole: can you tell us the story...
...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...
...pickets, joined by A.F. of L. printers from the World-Telegram composing room, circled the building for two hours, chanting: "We're out to win the war, what the hell is Pegler for?" Then an N.M.U. committee tramped to the office of Lee B. Wood, World-Telegram executive editor, handed him a statement which protested the "vile, Nazi-like statements by ... Westbrook Pegler." When Editor Wood had no comment, he was threatened by an N.M.U. spokesman: "You people better watch out. If you don't remove this guy you'll have more than picket lines around this...
Columnist Pegler was not there to see the show. He was agonizing, as is his editorial wont, over his next day's column on his 35-acre Westchester County estate (where the pond is known to Pegler friends as Lake Malice). When Pegler heard of the demonstration he promptly wrote another fire-eating column on N.M.U., tartly reminded his readers that early in 1941 N.M.U. had picketed...