Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Terrible-tempered Westbrook Pegler proved to be too hot to handle last week for the New York Journal-American, his No. 1 outlet. It killed a Pegler column warning readers not to buy U.S. bonds, although the Washington. Times-Herald and some other papers thought it fit to print. Wrote Peg: "Any corporation . . . promoting the purchase of Government bonds on the pretense that such bonds are good investments, is either a party to a confidence game or a victim of stupid management. In either case I am not kidded...
...critic, who had just given Keane and the road show a mild clawing. Said Actor Keane: she ought to get married. When someone said that Critic Cassidy is married already (to ex-Stockbroker William Crawford), Keane snapped: "Well, then, why not have her divorced and get her married to Westbrook Pegler...
...Senator Joe McCarthy started out as a private brawl. But last week, after Adam Hats had announced that it was not renewing its contract as Pearson's radio sponsor, newsmen from all over the nation jumped in. The big gun on McCarthy's side was Westbrook Pegler, who has long been in & out of libel suits with Pearson himself. Said Pegler of his longtime foe: "That lying blackguard is my man, just as Harold Ickes was in his time. Santa Claus brought him to me. Pearson is a liar and a rogue and I will belt him through...
...Westbrook Pegler got into the act with a pious statement of un-Peglerian mildness: "It is a great tragedy that in this awful hour the people of the U.S. must accept . . . the nasty malice of a President whom Bernard Baruch . . . called a rude, uncouth, ignorant man. Let us pray...
This lending of the Roosevelt name to the hawking of noodle soup and hearing aids has already inspired a broad parody from New York World Telegram & Sun Columnist H. I. Phillips, as well as the expected blasts from Westbrook Pegler. Elliott is saddened by such comments, but not surprised. "You always get carping criticism, people saying it's nothing but a money-making proposition," he explains. "But mother has a real feeling of achievement now that she has twelve sponsors. Sponsors are a sign of success...