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Asked Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "What sort of Sunday school outing is this . . . that a lot of male Aunt Hatties are permitted to put their heads together . . . and dirty up the name of a decent young married woman with a public order of dismissal for drinking...
...World-Telegram soon developed into Mayor LaGuardia's most vigilant critic. And so have Scripps-Howard papers recently delivered stinging attacks against certain aspects of the New Deal, largely through Columnists Raymond Clapper and Westbrook Pegler. Publisher Howard went on record in 1932 as a friend of the New Deal's "principles," chiefly because he believes that they alone are sufficiently resilient to give but not shatter under the pressure of what he sees as a world-wide Leftward swing. Does his present critical attitude indicate that he has fundamentally changed his mind about Roosevelt & Co.? Last week...
California's egg-headed Governor Frank Finley Merriam has done his best to deserve Columnist Westbrook Pegler's description of him as "a statesman who can be relied on to condemn the housefly and the common cold . . . never straddling the proposition that right is right and wrong is wrong." In 21 months of Republican incumbency, he has flirted with Dr. Francis E. ("$200-a-month") Townsend's plan, been for and against the New Deal, interested in the Mooney case but not interested enough to do anything about...
...Prague, Czechoslovakia, Columnist Westbrook Pegler summed up his impressions: ". . . The show served two very useful purposes. It prevented, for the time being at least, a brutal raid on the German Jews. ... It also vindicated the contention of those who opposed American participation that the Nazis could not be trusted to refrain from political and military propaganda...
...Passion Play, grew excited over radio accounts, went over to Garmisch to see what they were all about. An expert winter sportsman, he watched the fancy skaters, wagged his grey beard with approval when Germany's Karl Schafer got the gold medal. ¶U. S. Columnist Westbrook Pegler arrived from London, reasoned that the miserable showing by the U. S. might be a benefit in disguise. Wrote he: "If the trip had been called off, the firm-jawed, clean-limbed, clear-eyed American athletes would have felt that they had been denied a great honor and privilege...