Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columnist Westbrook Pegler, repeating an incessant Washington rumor that accused FBI of collecting secret dossiers on most of official Washington, snarled: "The FBI cooperates with police departments which tap wires of family telephones and even, in one incredible case . . . took phonograph records and moving pictures, on suspicion, of conversations and scenes within the bedroom of husband and wife...
...before Broun fell ill, his one-time friend and neighbor, Red-fearing Westbrook Pegler, wrote in his own syndicated column of the Guild: "I have long sensed a strong pull toward Communism in its official list. The masthead, so to speak, includes two officers out of five who are, to my satisfaction, either Communists or determined fellow travelers." And of Heywood Broun: "I can quote from his own writing an affirmation which goes far beyond a mere expression of sympathy for the show-window aims of the Moscow government." That such beliefs were harbored by many a Right-thinking dissenter...
...another local went the Washington Guild one better, put up the name of much nominated* Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Other nominations followed thick & fast, included Milton Kaufman, onetime Executive Secretary Jonathan Eddy, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.)-and even (after the deadline for nomination expired) Columnist Westbrook Pegler...
Last November acid-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler dug up evidence in Chicago that in 1922 William Bioff had been convicted of pandering, sentenced to six months in jail, released after serving just eight days (TIME, Aug. 21, Dec. 4). This was news because Bioff is western representative and reputed boss of the potent International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes (Stagehands' Union...
...Mass of Requiem for the soul of the late Heywood Broun. There were faces from Washington (Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter), from City Hall (Mayor LaGuardia), from Broadway (Tallulah Bankhead, George M. Cohan, George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin), from newspaper row (pavement-pounding reporters along with Franklin P. Adams, Westbrook Pegler, Rollin Kirby, Roy W. Howard, Herbert Bayard Swope). Many friends of Heywood Broun, accustomed to going to church only for funerals and weddings, did not know when to kneel or bow. Few of them had ever heard a funeral oration like that which was presently delivered to them...