Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "I submit that Fiorello LaGuardia has been the worst mucker on the New Deal team...
...Splenetic Columnist Westbrook Pegler grumped: "I never thought it would come to this with me. I liked Mr. Roosevelt real well...
Some feared that the legend of Hemingway virility was about to develop into a new Byronism. Quipped Westbrook Pegler: "Ernest Hemingway-the fur-bearing author. . . ." Critic Bernard De Voto observed: "So far none of Ernest Hemingway's characters has had any more consciousness than a jaguar." Critic Max Eastman wrote his Bull in the Afternoon, one day traded blows with angry Author Hemingway in the most diverting literary brawl since Theodore Dreiser punched Sinclair Lewis. There was a feeling abroad that Hemingway was a little too obsessed with sex, a little too obsessed with blood for the sake...
Sharpest tomahawk to be flipped in Mr. Ickes' direction came from Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who devoted three columns to Mr. Ickes and what Pegler called the "Social-Democratic party." Quick to claim his scalp, Columnist Pegler whooped : "In this world every guy has a sign on at least one other guy, and Harold Ickes is my guy." The Pegler war dance: ". . . Mr. Ickes is so cheap that when he gets sick or wants a rest he muscles into the Naval Hospital. . . . When he pulled that crack . . . about how Willkie made his money . . . I wanted...
Embarrassed by some of the memberships of his A. F. of L., Mr. Green has been busy defending his policies and himself, chiefly from superheated Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who has kept Mr. Green hopping like corn in a popper. Up for trial last week on a charge of snitching $60,000 from his organization of charwomen, chambermaids, was swarthy George Scalise, ex-president of the A. F. of L. Building Service Employes International Union...