Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wearing a hurt look and sounding indignant, pugnacious Joe Curran, 55, president of the National Maritime Union, sued acid-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler for $550,000, claiming that a union leader's reputation is damaged when he is characterized as a "racketeer," "Communist...
...stated and its youthful mistakes so widely publicized that it inevitably won the reputation of being the Wild One of philanthropy. In launching his investigation of tax-exempt foundations, Tennessee's tub-thumping B. Carroll Reece solemnly warned of Ford's "subversive and un-American propaganda activities." Westbrook Pegler called it a "front for dangerous Communists," and Pravda accused it of "the sending of spies, murderers, saboteurs and wreckers to Eastern Europe...
...hearings and played local angles to the hilt. Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 190,789), on the other hand, ran only routine service stories on the Senate investigation. still had not given the story top Page One play. The P-I diligently killed its syndicated Drew Pearson and Westbrook Pegler columns whenever they criticized Beck...
...Secretary James C. Hagerty) that President Eisenhower had taken a hand in the "giveaway" of Oregon timberland to Al Sarena Mines, Inc. (TIME, Feb. 6). Next, after five expensive years of legal maneuvers, Pearson quietly dropped his $5,100,000 damage and libel suits against Senator Joe McCarthy, Columnists Westbrook Pegler, Fulton Lewis Jr., and six others (TIME, March 12, 1951). At week's end, having thus turned both cheeks, Pearson was slapped with a $250,000 libel suit by Oregon Democratic Politician Lew Wallace, who charged Pearson with falsely implicating him in the timberland "giveaway...
Died. Julia Harpman Pegler, 61, wife of Columnist Westbrook Pegler, whom she married in 1922; of a heart attack; in Rome...