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...Westbrook Pegler (174 papers, circ. 10,000,000) has a literary skill "beyond question, but very few of his methods are consistent with any attempt at honesty, either emotional or intellectual. . . . They make one curious to know whether [he] is not aware that venom is a more marketable commodity than reason. . . . His readers cherish his cholers. . . . His circulation has risen with his blood pressure." Praised: the Peglerizing of Racketeers Willie Bioff, George Scalise...
...Leader's editors and staff (two girls), beaming over anniversary messages, recall amusedly one last year from a prominent anti-Communist whom the paper has often attacked. It read: "I find myself puzzled by its temperateness and very good humor-Westbrook Pegler...
...Farley, daughter of Jim, made a white-tulle-and-camellia debut at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. In the receiving line, she accompanied herself by humming They're Either Too Young Or Too Old, did much of her handshaking with such oldsters as Morton Downey, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Westbrook Pegler, Elsa Maxwell, William Bullitt...
Roosevelt-hating Columnist Westbrook Pegler bluntly "explained" this genteel, political tug of war in a way that reflected no particular credit on anyone: "Lepke was the boss of a local of Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America ... the union of a man who is one of the President's favorite unioneers. ... If Dewey could get possession of Lepke, he might persuade him to tell the whole story of his murderous, racketeering career in exchange for a commutation of his death sentence to life in prison...
...recommendation: Westbrook Pegler...