Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind him, on dry land, Seamari Joe's aggressive, left-wing union made more history. It threw the longest picket line of World War II (1,500 men) around the boxlike World-Telegram building in lower Manhattan to protest the labor-baiting writings of Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler...
...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...
This week N.M.U. began "permanent picketing" of the World-Telegram...
Almost without exception, the U.S. press hammered at the misbegotten OWI epithets and propaganda line. New Deal-hating Roy Howard's New York World-Telegram ran five stories and an editorial in one issue. To most critics the main point was that OWI had muffed its best chance to do an effective propaganda job. Whatever the fall of Mussolini meant to John Durfee, it meant plenty to Axis, neutral and captive citizens.* The symbol of Fascism was through. OWI might have pounded that home to them in their own languages-as BBC did from Britain...
...Said the New York World-Telegram, in an editorial syndicated to the 18 other Scripps-Howard papers: "De Gaullists have stooped to anti-American propaganda of a kind dear to the heart of Hitler. . . . If this keeps up, the United States must curtail its plan to arm 400,000 French forces...