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...request you select Westbrook Pegler as your Man of the Year. . . . His clear thinking and his old-fashioned Americanism and patriotism make him the greatest force for good in the country today...
...colossal courage, I nominate Westbrook Pegler...
...Consider Westbrook Pegler...
...idealistic mutual-ownership project dreamed up by Federal Works Agency's Colonel Lawrence Westbrook (TIME, June 2, 1941), Winfield Park's history was so deplorable that Colonel Westbrook could count himself lucky that he is now on active duty, reportedly in Australia. Less lucky was red-faced Contractor Clifford F. MacEvoy, who squirmingly admitted last week that subsidiaries of his MacEvoy Construction Co. had furnished bonding service, excavating equipment, trucks, etc. to the project at third-party profits. He also admitted that his $40-a-week secretary was put on the project (i.e., U.S. Government) payroll...
Last week Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who is by no means a friend of Fiorello LaGuardia, seized this climactic outburst to suggest that the Mayor needs a psychoanalyst. "The Little Flower," wrote Pegler, "has been going haywire lately. . . . He owes his job to the decent press of New York, which he hates because he can't suppress news of his own absurdities. . . . The papers have tried to cover up his alarming instability...