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Embarrassed by some of the memberships of his A. F. of L., Mr. Green has been busy defending his policies and himself, chiefly from superheated Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who has kept Mr. Green hopping like corn in a popper. Up for trial last week on a charge of snitching $60,000 from his organization of charwomen, chambermaids, was swarthy George Scalise, ex-president of the A. F. of L. Building Service Employes International Union...
Delegates wrangled for an hour over the amendment, heard the New York Herald Tribune's Lewis Gannett say its effect would be "to fill the Red-baiting maw of Westbrook Pegler," finally tabled...
...last nine months, sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler, onetime Guildsman, onetime friend & neighbor of the Guild's first president, Heywood Broun, has pounded away relentlessly at the Guild with charges of Communist domination (TIME, Jan. 22). Six insurgent members of the executive board last spring banded together, issued a pamphlet attacking the Guild's management (on grounds of centralized power and incompetence) in words almost as strong as Pegler's. They went to Memphis last week bent on throwing the rascals...
...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...
...heaven's gift. . . ." The Philadelphia Public Ledger had just plumped for Willkie; since June 19, Roy Howard's 18 papers had been thunderously thumping. At mid-convention, his bellwether New York World-Telegram had three of its four featured columnists (Clapper, Johnson, Westbrook Pegler) firing for Willkie. To many a G. O. P. delegate-overwhelmed with Willkie wordage-it must have seemed last week that the press indeed had nominated Wendell Willkie...