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Behind him, on dry land, Seamari Joe's aggressive, left-wing union made more history. It threw the longest picket line of World War II (1,500 men) around the boxlike World-Telegram building in lower Manhattan to protest the labor-baiting writings of Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler...
...circled the building for two hours, chanting: "We're out to win the war, what the hell is Pegler for?" Then an N.M.U. committee tramped to the office of Lee B. Wood, World-Telegram executive editor, handed him a statement which protested the "vile, Nazi-like statements by ... Westbrook Pegler." When Editor Wood had no comment, he was threatened by an N.M.U. spokesman: "You people better watch out. If you don't remove this guy you'll have more than picket lines around this office...
Fred Beck's column of homespun advertising in the Los Angeles Times has as many readers as Westbrook Pegler's column. This intense reader following has made a $5 million enterprise of the Los Angeles Farmers Market, which less than ten years ago was a vacant lot and an idea...
...called "TIME Views the News." The voice you hear will be the same Westbrook Van Voorhis you have so often heard on March of Time broadcasts and newsreels ("TIME Marches On!"). And it will be presented by the Blue Network over more than 100 stations Monday through Friday at 4:30 E.W.T...
...most substantial approvals of Pyle came from the Youngstown Vindicator, which used his column this spring when Columnist Westbrook Pegler was on vacation. When Pegler returned, the Vindicator kept Pyle...