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...rider to the questionnaire asked about favorite comics and columnists. Comic winners: Blondie (33%), Li'l Abner, Little Orphan Annie and Gasoline Alley (each 8%). Columnist winners: Westbrook Pegler (26%), Raymond Clapper (19%), Walter Lippmann...
...Hounds. Some Congressmen were already baying on the trail of OFF. They had the help of Columnist Westbrook Pegler, a handy man with a stone, who now steadily threw rocks at OFF's Malcolm Cowley, an ex-New Republican. And one of the principal things that set the Congressmen baying was OFF's first publication, a grandiose 62-page, red-white-&-blue-printed Report to the Nation...
Other, lesser U.S. possessions seemed to have been mislaid also. Where were the rubber tires? (see p. 15). Westbrook Pegler solemnly proposed death-the treatment for horse thieves in the Old West-for such U.S. curs as stole tires. Liberal journals thundered at Jesse Jones: "Where are our tin factories?" The Auto Workers Union thundered (in half-page advertisements) at "Mr. OPM." One thunderclap: "Where is the Reuther Plan?" Samuel Grafton, most belligerent columnar thunderer for the New Deal, thundered at the State Department (for protesting the Free French seizure of St. Pierre and Miqueloa): "Where Is Our Foreign Policy...
Bully. It was over a mix-up right in his own yard that Butch was shrillest and worst behaved. For years, colleagues and subordinates at City Hall had endured his bullying and abuse. Said Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "LaGuardia, in his years in office [has] . . . emphasized his vulgar irascibility, his bullying intolerance" and his inability to cooperate even with his own appointees...
...first man to propose publicly that this emphasis be reversed was not a businessman, but a labor leader. Walter Reuther, youthful vice president of U.A.W., is the kind of labor leader Westbrook Pegler has yet to dope out. He was seriously concerned about two things: 1) Hitler, 2) the fact than when the U.S. ran short of materials, it would cost his autoworkers jobs. As early as December 1940 he proposed to beat Hitler and secure the jobs by converting auto plants to the mass production of planes...