Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edison Collins Westbrook, Georgia University of Agriculture professor: "I am reserving my opinion...
Early last week dispatches from a vacation spot in Colorado began to rustle through the becalmed leaves of the nation's Press. These remote stirrings indicated that an answer would soon be forthcoming for Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who last week treated his Scripps-Howard readers to the following sarcasm...
Asked Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "What sort of Sunday school outing is this . . . that a lot of male Aunt Hatties are permitted to put their heads together . . . and dirty up the name of a decent young married woman with a public order of dismissal for drinking...
...World-Telegram soon developed into Mayor LaGuardia's most vigilant critic. And so have Scripps-Howard papers recently delivered stinging attacks against certain aspects of the New Deal, largely through Columnists Raymond Clapper and Westbrook Pegler. Publisher Howard went on record in 1932 as a friend of the New Deal's "principles," chiefly because he believes that they alone are sufficiently resilient to give but not shatter under the pressure of what he sees as a world-wide Leftward swing. Does his present critical attitude indicate that he has fundamentally changed his mind about Roosevelt & Co.? Last week...
California's egg-headed Governor Frank Finley Merriam has done his best to deserve Columnist Westbrook Pegler's description of him as "a statesman who can be relied on to condemn the housefly and the common cold . . . never straddling the proposition that right is right and wrong is wrong." In 21 months of Republican incumbency, he has flirted with Dr. Francis E. ("$200-a-month") Townsend's plan, been for and against the New Deal, interested in the Mooney case but not interested enough to do anything about...