Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large, men of high standards. If the papers of the United States could be turned over, suddenly, to reporters, editorial writers, and special writers, the standards of journalism would skyrocket overnight. It is the publishers who have back a newspaper, not people like J. Otis Switt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Westbrook Pegler. Why? Because publishers want to make a lot of money so that their widows can leave a million dollars to send somebody back to Harvard. Hearst went to Harvard, and he couldn't elevate a standard if it was rigged up with pulleys. --THE NEW YORKER...
Smiling benignly at the crowd, Dictator Hague began his prepared speech (broadcast by the Chamber of Commerce to let other cities "see how we settle our labor problems"), soon slipped into a harangue described by Columnist Westbrook Pegler as "largely incoherent noise...
...Roosevelt told of a family party at the White House to celebrate her birthday, wrote about "a gentleman coming in to do some work" who later "played dance music for us." Since Mrs. Roosevelt's birthday party took place the night before the fireside chat. Columnist Westbrook Pegler acidly inquired...
...Westbrook Pegler: "The case of Mr. Pegler, 'that peril to placidity.' is simplest of all. Peg was bitten by an income tax while still a boy a few years...
Come, come, TIME, don't hold out on us. Did or did not Publisher Boettiger read Westbrook Pegler's scoring of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger in his column Monday, Aug. 9 [TIME, Aug. 23! ? I'll bet you that orchid you wear that John Boettiger saw it and had "the courage not to care" whether Pegler's column appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. MURIEL SHANNON...