Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during the strike. PM did not capitalize on the situation by turning itself into a real newspaper, but succeeded in quadrupling its 150,000 circulation by being the only paper on most stands and offering a pro forma digest of the other papers' chief comics and columns. (Sample: "Westbrook Pegler: He's still yammering about 'union racketeers'; George Sokolsky: He's not worth quoting either.") The city was forced to depend for most of its news on radio stations, which expanded newscasts and quoted from comics and columnists...
...request you select Westbrook Pegler as your Man of the Year. . . . His clear thinking and his old-fashioned Americanism and patriotism make him the greatest force for good in the country today...
...colossal courage, I nominate Westbrook Pegler...
...Consider Westbrook Pegler...
Chatty Columnist Elsa Maxwell's amiability crumpled under the strain of Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who, she found, "has taken up the cudgels in defense of women." Gritted Elsa: "Now, Mr. Pegler is a Freudian study ... too much protest is often an unconscious expression of too much love-and vice versa. If this ambivalence of emotion is true-as it seems to be-Westbrook is certainly madly in love with Mrs. Roosevelt. . . . But since Westbrook has turned his loving eye on women, watch out. The Pegler libido . . . turns hot & cold. . . . Personally, girls, I think we had better continue standing...