Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blue Room at one time or another during the week also trotted Secretary Wallace, Secretary Ickes, Madam Secretary Perkins, Professor George F. Warren, Governor Black of the Federal Reserve (see p. 58), Governor Harrison of the New York Reserve Bank, Acting Relief Administrator Aubrey Williams. Drought Relief Administrator Lawrence Westbrook, AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis, Donald Richberg, General Johnson (see p.11). If any of them had brought anything so simple as a bag of corn, Franklin Roosevelt would have been pleased...
...Hiram W. Evans of the Ku Klux Klan sounded from Atlanta "the clarion call to battle" against Huey Long. Here and there a bold Louisianan tearfully predicted "killings and bloodshed in this State." Newspaper editors in & out of the State deplored and decried. But it remained for sophisticated Columnist Westbrook Pegler to write from Baton Rouge...
...heat was hard upon the flesh, drought was harder on the spirit. As he went into the "secondary" drought zone in Montana, Lawrence Westbrook, assist ant to Relief Administrator Harry Hop kins, boarded the train to give him figures: 24 States drought-devastated; 27,000,000 people drought-affected; 25% of the families in Montana and the Dakotas in need of transplanting to better lands; total damage to date $5,000,000,000. Next day in the deeper drought country, the President rode past fields where cattle were munching the last dry straws of a crop that would never...
Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week chose, as subject of one of his most sardonic pieces, Philadelphia Turfman Joseph Early Widener. Excerpts...
...Wrote Westbrook Pegler who, at $35,000 a year, earns about 10? a word for his United Feature column: "The piece has been accumulating compound interest, so to speak, for more than 60 years.... I have heard of Mr. Tennyson that he made a contract to sell his entire output to one publisher at a flat rate of $5 a word, sight unseen, and that the publisher suspected him of bad faith when Mr. Tennyson wrote "Break, break, break On thy cold gray stones...