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...nomination...is none other than Westbrook Pegler, who has defended democracy with greater vigor and efficiency than any other contemporaneous American...
...Reader nominations for TIME'S Man of the Year are now closed. Latest tabulation showed President Roosevelt in front, with Comrade Stalin second and Columnist Westbrook Pegler third...
...Westbrook Pegler told Phillips Exeter alumni in Manhattan: "I really am not sore at anyone except the common enemy...
...Apoplectic because Congress had not begun to act until the President gave them a signal, Columnist Westbrook Pegler sputtered: "A sorry counterfeit of a legislative body. . . . You have impaired and damn near destroyed your own prestige and with it the American form of Government...
...Until then he was confined more or less successfully to the editorial page. The news columns were largely in the hands of City Editor Robert Morton Lee (now dead) and Managing Editor Edward Scott Beck (now on the shelf). Under them the Tribune staff once included such names as Westbrook Pegler, Percy Hammond, Ring Lardner, Burton Rascoe. Present Managing Editor Pat Maloney, who flew with Rickenbacker and wears a Phi Beta Kappa key from Dartmouth, is a hard worker who got his training under Beck and Lee but lacks their independent thinking...